5. Alas for those who sing to the tune of the harp; like David they improvise on instruments of music.
6. Alas for those who drink from sprinkling bowls of wine and anoint themselves with the best of olive oils and are not grieved over the ruin of Joseph.
7. Therefore, they shall now go into exile at the head of the exiles and the feast of lounging shall pass away.
8. My Lord Yahweh has sworn by himself, declares Yahweh, the God of hosts: “I abhor the pride of Jacob and I hate his citadel fortresses and I will deliver the city and its fullness!”
9. And then if ten people remain in one house, they too will die.
10. And if one’s relative, who burns the body, lifts it up and brings the body out of the house and he will say to someone in the innermost part of the house, “Are there any more with you?” and he will say, “None,” then he will say, “Silence,” because we must not invoke the name of Yahweh.
11. Look, Yahweh is going to command and the great house will be destroyed to bits and the little house to pieces.