13. and so you will be carried away as prisoners. Your leaders will starve to death, and the common people will die of thirst.
14. The 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.
15. Everyone will be disgraced, and all who are proud will be humbled.
16. But the Lord Almighty shows his greatness by doing what is right, and he reveals his holiness by judging his people.
17. In the ruins of the cities lambs will eat grass and young goats will find pasture.