4 You lie on beds adorned with ivoryand lounge on your couches.You dine on choice lambsand fattened calves.
5 You strum away on your harps like Davidand improvise on musical instruments.
6 You drink wine by the bowlfuland use the finest lotions,but you do not grieve over the ruin of Joseph.
7 Therefore you will be among the first to go into exile;your feasting and lounging will end.
8 The Sovereign Lord has sworn by himself – the Lord God Almighty declares:‘I abhor the pride of Jacoband detest his fortresses;I will deliver up the cityand everything in it.’
9 If ten people are left in one house, they too will die.
10 And if the relative who comes to carry the bodies out of the house to burn them asks anyone who might be hiding there, ‘Is anyone else with you?’ and he says, ‘No,’ then he will go on to say, ‘Hush! We must not mention the name of the Lord.’