7. And these also stagger from wineand reel from beer:priests and prophets stagger from beerand are befuddled with wine;they reel from beer,they stagger when seeing visions,they stumble when rendering decisions.
8. All the tables are covered with vomitand there is not a spot without filth.
9. ‘Who is it he is trying to teach?To whom is he explaining his message?To children weaned from their milk,to those just taken from the breast?
10. For it is:do this, do that,a rule for this, a rule for that;a little here, a little there.’
11. Very well then, with foreign lips and strange tonguesGod will speak to this people,