8Shame on you! you who add house to house
and join field to field,
until not an acre remains,
and you are left to dwell alone in the land.
9The LORD of Hosts has sworn in my hearing:
Many houses shall go to ruin,
?ne large houses shall be uninhabited.
10Five acres of vineyard shall yield only a gallon,
and ten bushels of seed return only a peck.
11Shame on you! you who rise early in the morning
to go in pursuit of liquor
and draw out the evening inflamed with wine,
12at whose feasts there are harp and lute,
tabor and pipe and wine,
who have no eyes for the work of the LORD,
and never see the things that he has done.
13Therefore my people are dwindling away
all unawares;
the nobles are starving to death,
and the common folk die of thirst.
14Therefore Sheol gapes with straining throat
and has opened her measureless jaws:
down go nobility and common people,
their noisy bustling mob .
15Mankind is brought low, men are humbled,
humbled are haughty looks.
16But the LORD of Hosts sits high in judgement,
and by righteousness the holy God shows himself holy.
17Young rams shall feed where fat bullocks once pastured,
and kids shall graze broad acres where cattle grew fat .
18Shame on you! you who drag wickedness along like a tethered sheep
and sin like a heifer on a rope,
19who say, 'Let the LORD make haste,
let him speed up his work for us to see it,
let the purpose of the Holy One of Israel
be soon fulfilled, so that we may know it.'
20Shame on you! you who call evil good and good evil,
who turn darkness into light and light into darkness,
who make bitter sweet and sweet bitter.
21Shame on you! you who are wise in your own eyes
and prudent in your own esteem.
22Shame on you! you mighty topers, valiant mixers of drink,
23who for a bribe acquit the guilty
and deny justice to those in the right.
26 So he will hoist a signal to a nation far away,
he will whistle to call them from the end of the earth;
and see, they come, speedy and swift;
27none is weary, not one of them stumbles,
not one slumbers or sleeps.
None has his belt loose about his waist
or a broken thong to his sandals.
28Their arrows are sharpened and their bows all strung,
their horses' hooves flash like shooting stars,
their chariot-wheels are like the whirlwind.
29Their growling is the growling of a lioness,
they growl like young lions,
which roar as they seize the prey
and carry it beyond reach of rescue.
30They shall roar over it on that day
like the roaring of the sea.
If a man looks over the earth, behold, darkness closing in,
and the light darkened on the hill-tops !
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