10. And you counted the houses of Yerushalayim, and the houses you broke down to strengthen the wall.
11. And you dug a ditch between the two walls for the water of the old pool. But you have not looked to its Maker, nor have you seen Him who fashioned it long ago.
12. And in that day the Master יהוה of hosts called for weeping and for mourning, for baldness and for girding with sackcloth.
13. Then see! Joy and gladness, slaying oxen and killing sheep, eating meat and drinking wine, “Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die!”
14. And it was revealed in my hearing by יהוה of hosts, “For this crookedness shall certainly not be pardoned until you die,” said the Master יהוה of hosts.
15. Thus said the Master יהוה of hosts, “Go, come to this steward, to Sheḇnah, who is over the house, and say,
16. ‘What have you here, and whom have you here, that you have hewn a tomb here, as he who hews himself a tomb on high, cutting out a resting place for himself in a rock?
17. ‘See, יהוה is hurling you away, O man, and is firmly grasping you,
18. rolling you up tightly like a ball, into a wide land. There you are to die, and there your esteemed chariots are to be the shame of your master’s house.
19. ‘And I shall drive you from your office, and you shall be ousted from your position.
20. ‘And it shall be in that day, that I shall call My servant Elyaqim son of Ḥilqiyahu.