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Yes, Adonai -Tzva'ot has a day in store for all who are proud and lofty, for all who are lifted high to be humiliated;

for all cedars of the L'vanon that are high and lifted up, for all the oaks of the Bashan;

for all the high mountains, for all the hills that are lifted up;

for every high tower, for every fortified wall;

for every "Tarshish" ship, for every luxurious vessel.

On that day a man will take hold of his idols of silver and idols of gold, which they made for themselves to worship, and fling them away to the moles and bats!

Stop relying on man, in whose nostrils is a mere breath — after all, he doesn't count for much, does he?

For see! The Lord, Adonai -Tzva'ot, will remove from Yerushalayim and Y'hudah every kind of support — all reserves of food and water;

But on that day, he will protest, "I don't have a remedy, I lack food and clothing for my own house; don't put me in charge of people!"

For Yerushalayim is ruined, and Y'hudah has fallen; because their words and deeds defy Adonai , in open provocation of his glory.

Their very look witnesses against them! They parade their sin, like S'dom; they don't even try to hide it — all the worse for them! — they bring evil on themselves.

but woe to the wicked, it will go badly with him; for what he has done will be done to him.

Those left in Tziyon and remaining in Yerushalayim will be called holy, and everyone in Yerushalayim written down for life.

Adonai will create over the whole site of Mount Tziyon and over those who assemble there a smoking cloud by day and a shining, flaming fire by night; for the Glory will be over everything like a hupah.

I want to sing a song for someone I love, a song about my loved one and his vineyard. My loved one had a vineyard on a very fertile hill.

What more could I have done for my vineyard that I haven't already done in it? So why, when I expected good grapes, did it produce sour, wild grapes?

Woe to those who add house to house and join field to field, until there's no room for anyone else, and you live in splendor alone on your land.

for a ten-acre vineyard will produce only five gallons of wine, and seed from five bushels of grain will yield but half a bushel."

For such lack of knowledge my people go into exile; this is also why their respected men starve and their masses are parched from thirst.

who acquit the guilty for bribes but deny justice to the righteous!