8 How terrible it will be for you who add more houses to your housesand more fields to your fieldsuntil there is no room left for other people.Then you are left alone in the land.
9 The Lord All-Powerful said this to me:“The fine houses will be destroyed;the large and beautiful houses will be left empty.
10 At that time a ten-acre vineyard will make only six gallons of wine,and ten bushels of seed will grow only half a bushel of grain.”
11 How terrible it will be for people who rise early in the morningto look for strong drink,who stay awake late at night,becoming drunk with wine.
12 At their parties they have lyres, harps,tambourines, flutes, and wine.They don’t see what the Lord has doneor notice the work of his hands.
13 So my people will be captured and taken away,because they don’t really know me.All the great people will die of hunger,and the common people will die of thirst.
14 So the place of the dead wants more and more people,and it opens wide its mouth.Jerusalem’s important people and common people will go down into it,with their happy and noisy ones.