12 At your drinking parties you have the music of stringed instruments, tambourines, and flutes. But you never even think about all the Lord has done,
13 and so his people know nothing about him. That's why many of you will be dragged off to foreign lands. Your leaders will starve to death, and everyone else will suffer from thirst.
14 The world of the dead has opened its mouth wide and is eagerly waiting for the leaders of Jerusalem and for its noisy crowds, especially for those who take pride in that city.
15 Its citizens have been put down, and its proud people have been brought to shame.
16 But the holy Lord God All-Powerful is praised, because he has shown who he is by bringing justice.
17 His people will be like sheep grazing in their own pasture, and they will take off what was left by others.
18 You are in for trouble! The lies you tell are like ropes by which you drag along sin and evil.