12. And the harp and the viol, the tambourine and flutes and wine are in their feasts; but they do not regard the work of the Lord, nor consider the work of his hands.
13. Therefore my people are gone into captivity because they have no knowledge; their glory died of hunger, and their multitude dried up of thirst.
14. Therefore Sheol has enlarged himself and opened his mouth without measure; and their glory, and their multitude descended into it and their pomp and he that rejoiced in him.
15. And the mean man shall be brought down, and the mighty man shall be humbled, and the eyes of the lofty shall be humbled:
16. But the Lord of the hosts shall be exalted in judgment, and God, that is holy, shall be sanctified with righteousness.
17. Then the lambs shall be fed after their manner, and strangers shall eat the fat ones that are forsaken.
18. Woe unto those that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as it were with a cart rope,
19. that say, Let him make speed and hasten his work that we may see it, and let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw near and come that we may know it!
20. Woe unto those that call evil good and good evil; that put darkness for light and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!
21. Woe unto those that are wise in their own eyes and prudent in their own sight!
22. Woe unto those that are mighty to drink wine and men of strength to mingle strong drink;
23. who justify the wicked for bribes and take away the righteousness of the righteous from him!
24. Therefore as the fire devours the stubble and the flame consumes the chaff, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go away as dust because they have cast away the law of the Lord of the hosts and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.