12. The Lord, the Lord Almighty,called you on that dayto weep and to wail,to tear out your hair and put on sackcloth.
13. But see, there is joy and revelry,slaughtering of cattle and killing of sheep,eating of meat and drinking of wine!‘Let us eat and drink,’ you say,‘for tomorrow we die!’
14. The Lord Almighty has revealed this in my hearing: ‘Till your dying day this sin will not be atoned for,’ says the Lord, the Lord Almighty.
15. This is what the Lord, the Lord Almighty, says:‘Go, say to this steward,to Shebna the palace administrator:
16. what are you doing here and who gave you permissionto cut out a grave for yourself here,hewing your grave on the heightand chiselling your resting place in the rock?