All of him shall come for violence; the gathering of their faces is forward; and they gather captives like the sand.

He takes up all of them with the hook; he drags him with his net and gathers him with his seine; therefore he rejoices and exults.

Behold, the soul of him is lifted up, and is not upright; but the just shall live by his faith.

Shall not all these lift up a parable against him, and a mocking riddle to him, and say, Woe to him who increases what is not his! Until when, then, shall he load the pledges on himself?

Woe to him who robs evil booty for his house, to set his nest on high, to be delivered from the hand of evil!

Woe to him who builds a town with blood, and establishes a city by iniquity!

Woe to him who gives his neighbor drink, pouring out your wineskin, and also making him drunk, that you may look on their nakedness!

Woe to him who says to the wood. Awake! To a dumb stone, Arise, it shall teach! Behold, it is overlaid with gold and silver, and no breath is in its midst.

But Jehovah is in His holy temple; let all the earth keep silence before Him.

A plague went before Him, and lightning went forth at His feet.

I heard and my belly trembled; my lips quivered at the voice. Rottenness entered into my bones, and I trembled in myself that I might rest in the day of trouble; to come up against the people; he cuts him off.