8Cursed are those who are joining house to house, and putting field to field, till there is no more living-space for any but themselves in all the land!
9The Lord of armies has said to me secretly, Truly, numbers of great and fair houses will be waste, with no one living in them.
10For ten fields of vines will only give one measure of wine, and a great amount of seed will only give a small measure of grain.
11Cursed are those who get up early in the morning to give themselves up to strong drink; who keep on drinking far into the night till they are heated with wine!
12And corded instruments and wind-instruments and wine are in their feasts: but they give no thought to the work of the Lord, and they are not interested in what his hands are doing.
13For this cause my people are taken away as prisoners into strange countries for need of knowledge: and their rulers are wasted for need of food, and their loud-voiced feasters are dry for need of water.
14For this cause the underworld has made wide its throat, opening its mouth without limit: and her glory, and the noise of her masses, and her loud-voiced feasters, will go down into it.
