8. Don’t enter a house where there is feasting and sit down to eat and drink.
9. This is what the Lord of heavenly forces, the God of Israel, proclaims:Before your very eyes and in your own lifetime, I will silence in this place the sounds of joy and gladness and the voices of the bridegroom and the bride.
10. When you proclaim all these things to the people, and they ask you, "Why has the Lord pronounced such massive devastation against us? What have we done wrong? How have we sinned against the Lord our God?"
11. then you should tell them: It’s because your ancestors have deserted me and followed other gods, declares the Lord. They have served and worshipped them, while abandoning me and refusing to keep my Instruction.
12. And you, you have acted worse than your ancestors, each of you following your own willful, evil hearts and paying no attention to me.
13. So I will banish you from this land to a place that neither you nor your ancestors have known, and there you will serve other gods day and night, for I will show you no mercy.
14. But the time is coming, declares the Lord, when no one will say, "As the Lord lives who brought up the Israelites from the land of Egypt";
15. instead, they will say, "As the Lord lives who brought up the Israelites from the land of the north and from all the lands where he has banished them." I will bring them back to the land that I gave to their ancestors.