9. I heard the Lord All-Powerful make this oath: “I swear, all these houses will be destroyed. These big, fancy houses will be empty.
10. A ten-acre vineyard will make only a little wine, and many sacks of seed will grow only a little grain.”
11. How terrible it will be for you people who rise early in the morning and go looking for beer to drink. You stay awake late at night, getting drunk on wine.
12. At your parties with your wine, harps, drums, flutes, and other musical instruments, you don’t see what the Lord has done. You don’t notice what his hands have made.
13. My people don’t really know God. So they will be captured and taken away. Everyone, the respected leaders and the common people as well, will be hungry and thirsty.
14. They will die, and the place of death will open its mouth wide and swallow many of them. Then the noisy crowds and all the beautiful, happy people who are now so comfortable will go down into the grave.
15. Everyone, common people and leaders alike, will be humbled. Those who are now so proud will bow their heads in shame.
16. The Lord All-Powerful will judge fairly, and people will honor him. They will respect the Holy God when he brings justice.
17. Then sheep will be able to go wherever they want and graze on the land that rich people once owned.
18. Look at those people! They pull their guilt and sins behind them like people pulling wagons with ropes.
19. They say, “We wish God would hurry and do what he plans to do so that we can see it. Let the plan of the Holy One of Israel happen soon so that we can know what it is.”