2. Pass over to Calneh and see,go from there to Hamath the great,and down to Gath of the Philistines.Are you better than these kingdoms,or is your territory greater than theirs?
3. You who would put off the day of disaster,yet hasten the time of violence!
4. Those who lie on beds of ivory,and lounge upon their couches;Eating lambs taken from the flock,and calves from the stall;
5. Who improvise to the music of the harp,composing on musical instruments like David,
6. Who drink wine from bowls,and anoint themselves with the best oils,but are not made ill by the collapse of Joseph;
7. Therefore, now they shall be the first to go into exile,and the carousing of those who lounged shall cease.
8. The Lord God has sworn by his very self—an oracle of the Lord, the God of hosts:I abhor the pride of Jacob,I hate his strongholds,and I will hand over the city with everything in it;
9. Should there remain ten peoplein a single house, these shall die.