8. Because you have plundered many nations,all the remnant of the peoples shall plunder you, for the blood of man and violence to the earth,to cities and all who dwell in them.
9. “Woe to him who gets evil gain for his house, to set his nest on high,to be safe from the reach of harm!
10. You have devised shame for your house by cutting off many peoples;you have forfeited your life.
11. For the stone will cry out from the wall,and the beam from the woodwork respond.
12. “Woe to him who builds a town with bloodand founds a city on iniquity!
13. Behold, is it not from the Lord of hoststhat peoples labor merely for fire,and nations weary themselves for nothing?
14. For the earth will be filledwith the knowledge of the glory of the Lordas the waters cover the sea.