1-3. A Message concerning the Valley of Vision:What’s going on here anyway?All this partying and noisemaking,Shouting and cheering in the streets,the city noisy with celebrations!You have no brave soldiers to honor,no combat heroes to be proud of.Your leaders were all cowards,captured without even lifting a sword,A country of cowardscaptured escaping the battle.
12-13. The Master, God-of-the-Angel-Armies,called out on that Day,Called for a day of repentant tears,called you to dress in somber clothes of mourning.But what do you do? You throw a party!Eating and drinking and dancing in the streets!You barbecue bulls and sheep, and throw a huge feast—slabs of meat, kegs of beer.“Seize the day! Eat and drink!Tomorrow we die!”
14. God-of-the-Angel-Armies whispered to me his verdict on this frivolity: “You’ll pay for this outrage until the day you die.” The Master, God-of-the-Angel-Armies, says so.