8. Then the word of the Lord came unto me, saying,
9. Thus hath the Lord said, After this manner I will cause the pride of Judah to rot and the great pride of Jerusalem.
10. This evil people that refuses to hear my words, which walk in the imagination of their heart and went after other gods to serve them and to worship them shall even be as this girdle, which is good for nothing.
11. For as the girdle cleaves to the loins of a man, so I have caused to cleave unto me the whole house of Israel and the whole house of Judah, saith the Lord; that they might be unto me for a people and for fame, and for a praise, and for honour; but they did not hear.
12. Therefore thou shalt speak unto them this word: Thus hath the Lord God of Israel said, Every bottle shall be filled with wine; and they shall say unto thee, Do we not certainly know that every bottle shall be filled with wine?
13. Then shalt thou say unto them, Thus hath the Lord said, Behold, I fill all the inhabitants of this land with drunkenness, even the kings that sit upon David’s throne and the priests and the prophets and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
14. And I will break them one against another, even the fathers with the sons together, saith the Lord; I will not pity nor spare nor have mercy to not destroy them.
15. Hear ye and give ear; do not be proud: for the Lord has spoken.
16. Give glory to the Lord your God before he causes darkness and before your feet stumble in mountains of darkness, and while ye look for light, he turns it into the shadow of death and makes it gross darkness.
17. But if ye will not hear this, my soul shall weep in secret because of your pride; and weeping bitterly, my eyes shall be undone in tears because the Lord’s flock was carried away captive.
18. Say unto the king and to the queen, Humble yourselves, sit down in the dust because the crown of your glory has come down off your heads.
19. The cities of the south were shut up, and no one could open them: Judah was carried away captive; all of it, it was completely carried away captive.
20. Lift up your eyes, and behold those that come from the north wind: where is the flock that was given thee, the cattle of thy beauty?