⁸You are doomed! You buy more houses and fields to add to those you already have. Soon there will be nowhere for anyone else to live, and you alone will live in the land. ⁹I have heard the Lord Almighty say, “All these big, fine houses will be empty ruins. ¹⁰The grapevines growing on ten hectares of land will yield only eight litres of wine. A hundred and eighty litres of seed will produce only eighteen litres of corn.”

¹¹You are doomed! You get up early in the morning to start drinking, and you spend long evenings getting drunk. ¹²At your feasts you have harps and tambourines and flutes—and wine. But you don’t understand what the Lord is doing, ¹³and so you will be carried away as prisoners. Your leaders will starve to death, and the common people will die of thirst. ¹⁴The world of the dead is hungry for them, and it opens its mouth wide. It gulps down the nobles of Jerusalem along with the noisy crowd of common people.

¹⁵Everyone will be disgraced, and all who are proud will be humbled. ¹⁶But the Lord Almighty shows his greatness by doing what is right, and he reveals his holiness by judging his people. ¹⁷In the ruins of the cities lambs will eat grass and young goats will find pasture.^h

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Isaiah 5:15–16: Man is humbled, and each one is brought low, and the eyes of the haughty are brought low. But the LORD of hosts is exalted in justice, and the Holy God shows himself holy in righteousness.

Footnotes

hVerse 17 in Hebrew is unclear.