10. You have plotted the ruin of many peoples,shaming your own house and forfeiting your life.
11. The stones of the wall will cry out,and the beams of the woodwork will echo it.
12. ‘Woe to him who builds a city with bloodshedand establishes a town by injustice!
13. Has not the Lord Almighty determinedthat the people’s labour is only fuel for the fire,that the nations exhaust themselves for nothing?
14. For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lordas the waters cover the sea.