5. Yes, moreover, wine is treacherous. An arrogant man who doesn’t stay at home, who enlarges his desire as Sheol, and he is like death, and can’t be satisfied, but gathers to himself all nations, and heaps to himself all peoples.
6. Won’t all these take up a parable against him, and a taunting proverb against him, and say, ‘Woe to him who increases that which is not his, and who enriches himself by extortion! How long?’
7. Won’t your debtors rise up suddenly, and wake up those who make you tremble, and you will be their victim?
8. Because you have plundered many nations, all the remnant of the peoples will plunder you, because of men’s blood, and for the violence done to the land, to the city and to all who dwell in it.
9. Woe to him who gets an evil gain for his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the hand of evil!
10. You have devised shame to your house, by cutting off many peoples, and have sinned against your soul.
11. For the stone will cry out of the wall, and the beam out of the woodwork will answer it.
12. Woe to him who builds a town with blood, and establishes a city by iniquity!
13. Behold, isn’t it of the Lord of Hosts that the peoples labour for the fire, and the nations weary themselves for vanity?
14. For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the Lord’s glory, as the waters cover the sea.
15. “Woe to him who gives his neighbour drink, pouring your inflaming wine until they are drunk, so that you may gaze at their naked bodies!
16. You are filled with shame, and not glory. You will also drink, and be exposed! The cup of the Lord’s right hand will come around to you, and disgrace will cover your glory.