6. ‘Will not all of them taunt him with ridicule and scorn, saying,‘ “Woe to him who piles up stolen goodsand makes himself wealthy by extortion!How long must this go on?”
7. Will not your creditors suddenly arise?Will they not wake up and make you tremble?Then you will become their prey.
8. Because you have plundered many nations,the peoples who are left will plunder you.For you have shed human blood;you have destroyed lands and cities and everyone in them.
9. ‘Woe to him who builds his house by unjust gain,setting his nest on highto escape the clutches of ruin!
10. You have plotted the ruin of many peoples,shaming your own house and forfeiting your life.
11. The stones of the wall will cry out,and the beams of the woodwork will echo it.
12. ‘Woe to him who builds a city with bloodshedand establishes a town by injustice!
13. Has not the Lord Almighty determinedthat the people’s labour is only fuel for the fire,that the nations exhaust themselves for nothing?
14. For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lordas the waters cover the sea.
15. ‘Woe to him who gives drink to his neighbours,pouring it from the wineskin till they are drunk,so that he can gaze on their naked bodies!