11. Note well: God issues the orders.He’ll knock large houses to smithereens.He’ll smash little houses to bits.
12-13. Do you hold a horse race in a field of rocks?Do you plow the sea with oxen?You’d cripple the horsesand drown the oxen.And yet you’ve made a shambles of justice,a bloated corpse of righteousness,Bragging of your trivial pursuits,beating up on the weak and crowing, “Look what I’ve done!”
14. “Enjoy it while you can, you Israelites.I’ve got a pagan army on the move against you”—this is your God speaking, God-of-the-Angel-Armies—“And they’ll make hash of you,from one end of the country to the other.”