8. You are in for trouble! You take over house after house and field after field, until there is no room left for anyone else in all the land.
9. But the Lord All-Powerful has made this promise to me:Those large and beautiful homes will be left empty, with no one to take care of them.
10. Four hectares of grapevines will produce only twenty-seven litres of juice, and a hundred and eighty litres of seed will produce merely eighteen litres of grain.
11. You are in for trouble! You get up early to start drinking, and you keep it up late into the night.
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.