8. “You shall not go into the house of feasting to sit with them, to eat and to drink.”
9. For the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel says: “Behold, I will cause to cease out of this place, before your eyes and in your days, the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride.
10. It will happen, when you tell this people all these words, and they ask you, ‘Why has the Lord pronounced all this great evil against us?’ or ‘What is our iniquity? or ‘What is our sin that we have committed against the Lord our God?’
11. then you shall tell them, ‘Because your fathers have forsaken me,’ says the Lord, ‘and have walked after other gods, have served them, have worshipped them, have forsaken me, and have not kept my law.
12. You have done evil more than your fathers, for behold, you each walk after the stubbornness of his evil heart, so that you don’t listen to me.
13. Therefore I will cast you out of this land into the land that you have not known, neither you nor your fathers. There you will serve other gods day and night, for I will show you no favour.’
14. “Therefore behold, the days come,” says the Lord, “that it will no more be said, ‘As the Lord lives, who brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt;’
15. but, ‘As the Lord lives, who brought up the children of Israel from the land of the north, and from all the countries where he had driven them.’ I will bring them again into their land that I gave to their fathers.
16. “Behold, I will send for many fishermen,” says the Lord, “and they will fish them up. Afterward I will send for many hunters, and they will hunt them from every mountain, from every hill, and out of the clefts of the rocks.
17. For my eyes are on all their ways. They are not hidden from my face. Their iniquity isn’t concealed from my eyes.
18. First I will recompense their iniquity and their sin double, because they have polluted my land with the carcasses of their detestable things, and have filled my inheritance with their abominations.”