8Woe to those who join house to house and join field to field until there is no place remaining, so that you are made to dwell alone in the midst of the land.9In my hearing the LORD of hosts has spoken: Surely many houses shall become desolate, great and pleasant houses, with no one dwelling in them.10For ten acres of vineyard shall produce only one bath, and a homer of seed shall produce only an ephah.11Woe to those who rise early in the morning to pursue strong drink, who continue until twilight while wine sets them ablaze.12Lyre and harp, tambourine and flute and wine are at their feasts, but they do not regard the work of the LORD, nor do they see the work of his hands.13Therefore my people go into exile for lack of knowledge, and their honored men suffer famine, and their multitude is parched with thirst.14Therefore Sheol has enlarged its desire and opened its mouth without measure, so that its nobility, its multitude, its uproar, and its reveler descend into it.15Man is brought low, and each man is humbled, and the eyes of the proud are brought low.16But the LORD of hosts is exalted in justice, and the holy God shows himself holy in righteousness.17Then lambs shall graze in their pasture, and the ruins shall be eaten by sojourners.18Woe to those who draw iniquity with cords of falsehood and sin as with a cart rope.19Those who say, Let him make haste; let him hasten his work so that we may see it. Let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw near and come, that we may know it.20Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who set darkness for light and light for darkness, who set bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter.21Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes and clever in their own sight.22Woe to the mighty who drink wine and to the valiant men who mix strong drink.23Who acquit the guilty for a bribe and deprive the innocent of their rights.24Therefore, as a tongue of fire consumes stubble and as dry grass sinks into flame, so their root shall become like decay and their blossom shall rise like dust, for they have rejected the instruction of the LORD of hosts and have despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.25Therefore the anger of the LORD burned against his people, and he stretched out his hand against them and struck them down. The mountains quaked, and their corpses lay like refuse in the streets. Yet for all this his anger has not turned away, and his hand is still stretched out.26He raises a banner for nations from afar and whistles for them from the ends of the earth; and behold, they come swiftly and speedily.27None among them grows weary and none stumbles; none slumbers and none sleeps. No belt is loosened and no sandal thong is broken.28Their arrows are sharpened and all their bows are strung; their horses' hoofs are like flint and their chariot wheels like a whirlwind.29Their roar is like that of a lion; they roar like young lions, growl, seize the prey, and carry it away, and there is none to rescue.30They will growl over it on that day like the roaring of the sea. When one looks to the land, behold, there is darkness and distress, and the light is darkened by its clouds.