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.
15And the poor man's head is bent, and the great man goes down on his face, and the eyes of pride are put to shame:
16But the Lord of armies is lifted up as judge, and the Holy God is seen to be holy in righteousness.
17Then the lambs will get food as in their grass-lands, and the fat cattle will be feasting in the waste places.
18Cursed are those who make use of ox-cords for pulling the evil thing, and the bands of a young ox for their sin!
