9. “Thus says the Lord: Even so will I spoil the pride of Judah and the great pride of Jerusalem.
10. This evil people, who refuse to hear my words, who stubbornly follow their own heart and have gone after other gods to serve them and worship them, shall be like this loincloth, which is good for nothing.
11. For as the loincloth clings to the waist of a man, so I made the whole house of Israel and the whole house of Judah cling to me, declares the Lord, that they might be for me a people, a name, a praise, and a glory, but they would not listen.
12. “You shall speak to them this word: ‘Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, “Every jar shall be filled with wine.”’ And they will say to you, ‘Do we not indeed know that every jar will be filled with wine?’
13. Then you shall say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord: Behold, I will fill with drunkenness all the inhabitants of this land: the kings who sit on David’s throne, the priests, the prophets, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
14. And I will dash them one against another, fathers and sons together, declares the Lord. I will not pity or spare or have compassion, that I should not destroy them.’”
15. Hear and give ear; be not proud,for the Lord has spoken.
16. Give glory to the Lord your God before he brings darkness,before your feet stumbleon the twilight mountains,and while you look for lighthe turns it into gloomand makes it deep darkness.
17. But if you will not listen, my soul will weep in secret for your pride;my eyes will weep bitterly and run down with tears,because the Lord’s flock has been taken captive.
18. Say to the king and the queen mother:“Take a lowly seat,for your beautiful crownhas come down from your head.”
19. The cities of the Negeb are shut up,with none to open them;all Judah is taken into exile,wholly taken into exile.
20. “Lift up your eyes and seethose who come from the north.Where is the flock that was given you,your beautiful flock?
21. What will you say when they set as head over youthose whom you yourself have taught to be friends to you? Will not pangs take hold of youlike those of a woman in labor?
22. And if you say in your heart, ‘Why have these things come upon me?’it is for the greatness of your iniquitythat your skirts are lifted upand you suffer violence.