They howl in the streets because of what happened to the wine; all joy turns to sorrow; celebrations disappear from the earth.

Even if the forest is destroyed and the city is annihilated,

He pursues them and passes by unharmed; he advances with great speed.

Let your private parts be exposed! Your genitals will be on display! I will get revenge; I will not have pity on anyone,”

For you ignore the God who rescues you; you pay no attention to your strong protector. So this is what happens: You cultivate beautiful plants and plant exotic vines.

Don’t panic! Don’t be afraid! Did I not tell you beforehand and decree it? You are my witnesses! Is there any God but me? There is no other sheltering rock; I know of none.

Disaster will overtake you; you will not know how to charm it away. Destruction will fall on you; you will not be able to appease it. Calamity will strike you suddenly, before you recognize it.

There will be some left behind, like when an olive tree is beaten – two or three ripe olives remain toward the very top, four or five on its fruitful branches,” says the Lord God of Israel.

For this is what the Lord says, the one who created the sky – he is the true God, the one who formed the earth and made it; he established it, he did not create it without order, he formed it to be inhabited – “I am the Lord, I have no peer.

For this is what the high and exalted one says, the one who rules forever, whose name is holy: “I dwell in an exalted and holy place, but also with the discouraged and humiliated, in order to cheer up the humiliated and to encourage the discouraged.

The Lord who commands armies told me this: “Many houses will certainly become desolate, large, impressive houses will have no one living in them.

Indeed this is what the Lord told me. He took hold of me firmly and warned me not to act like these people:

It will be as when one gathers the grain harvest, and his hand gleans the ear of grain. It will be like one gathering the ears of grain in the Valley of Rephaim.

For the bed is too short to stretch out on, and the blanket is too narrow to wrap around oneself.

He is your constant source of stability; he abundantly provides safety and great wisdom; he gives all this to those who fear him.

Certainly you will not refuse one of my master’s minor officials and trust in Egypt for chariots and horsemen.

I look, but there is no one, among them there is no one who serves as an adviser, that I might ask questions and receive answers.

Look, your fasting is accompanied by arguments, brawls, and fistfights. Do not fast as you do today, trying to make your voice heard in heaven.

Your officials are rebels, they associate with thieves. All of them love bribery, and look for payoffs. They do not take up the cause of the orphan, or defend the rights of the widow.

The look on their faces testifies to their guilt; like the people of Sodom they openly boast of their sin. Too bad for them! For they bring disaster on themselves.