7. Won’t your creditors suddenly rise upand those who are going to shake you wake up?Then you will become their prize.
8. You have looted many nations.All the rest of the people will loot youbecause of the slaughter and violence doneto lands, cities, and all their inhabitants.
9. “‘How horrible it will be for the one who uses violenceto get things for his own householdin order to set his nest up highand save himself from disaster.’
10. You have planned disgrace for your householdby cutting off many people and forfeiting your own life.
11. A stone in the wall will cry out.A beam in the roof will answer it.
12. “‘How horrible it will be for the one who builds a city by slaughterand founds a town by crime.’
13. Isn’t it from the Lord of Armiesthat people grow tired only to feed the flamesand nations exhaust themselves for nothing?
14. But the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the Lord’s glorylike the water covers the sea.
15. “‘How horrible it will be for the one who makes his neighbor drinkfrom the bowl of God’s rage,making him drunk in order to stare at his nakedness.’
16. You are filled with disgrace rather than glory.Drink! Yes you! And expose yourself as godless.The cup in the Lord’s right hand will come around to you,and disgrace will cover your glory.
17. The violence done to Lebanon will overwhelm you,and the destruction done to the animals will terrify youbecause of the slaughter and violence doneto lands, cities, and all their inhabitants.
18. “What benefit is there in a carved idolwhen its maker has carved it?What benefit is there in a molded statue, a teacher of lies,when its maker has molded it?The one who formed it trusts himselfto make worthless idols that cannot speak.