14. who says, “I will build myself a massive palace,with spacious upper rooms.”He will cut windows in it,and it will be paneled with cedarand painted with vermilion.
15. Are you a king because you excel in cedar?Didn’t your father eat and drinkand administer justice and righteousness? Then it went well with him.
16. He took up the case of the poor and needy,then it went well.Is this not what it means to know Me?This is the Lord’s declaration.
17. But you have eyes and a heart for nothingexcept your own dishonest profit,shedding innocent bloodand committing extortion and oppression.