9. Ah! you who pursue evil gain for your household,setting your nest on highto escape the reach of misfortune!
10. You have devised shame for your household,cutting off many peoples, forfeiting your own life;
11. For the stone in the wall shall cry out,and the beam in the frame shall answer it!
12. Ah! you who build a city by bloodshed,and who establish a town with injustice!
13. Is this not from the Lord of hosts:peoples toil for what the flames consume,and nations grow weary for nothing!
14. But the earth shall be filledwith the knowledge of the Lord’s glory,just as the water covers the sea.
15. Ah! you who give your neighborsthe cup of your wrath to drink, and make them drunk,until their nakedness is seen!
16. You are filled with shame instead of glory;drink, you too, and stagger!The cup from the Lord’s right hand shall come around to you,and utter shame shall cover your glory.
17. For the violence done to Lebanon shall cover you,and the destruction of the animals shall terrify you;Because of the shedding of human blood,and violence done to the land,to the city and to all who live in it.
18. Of what use is the carved image,that its maker should carve it?Or the molten image, the lying oracle,that its very maker should trust in it,and make mute idols?
19. Ah! you who say to wood, “Awake!”to silent stone, “Arise!”Can any such thing give oracles?It is only overlaid with gold and silver,there is no breath in it at all.
20. But the Lord is in his holy temple;silence before him, all the earth!