MLV(i)
5 Yes, moreover, wine is treacherous. He is a haughty man, who does not keep at home, who enlarges his desire as Sheol and he is as death and cannot be satisfied, but gathers to him all nations and heaps to him all peoples.
6 Shall not all these take up a parable against him and a taunting proverb against him and say, Woe to him who increases what is not his (how long?) and who loads himself with pledges! 7 Shall they not rise up suddenly that will bite you and awake that will besiege you. And you will be for booty to them?
8 Because you have plundered many nations, all the remnant of the peoples will plunder you, because of men's blood and for the violence done to the land, to the city and to all who dwell in it.
9 Woe to him who gets an evil gain for his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the hand of evil! 10 You have devised shame to your house, by cutting off many peoples and have sinned against your soul. 11 For the stone will cry out of the wall and the beam out of the timber will answer it.
12 Woe to him who builds a town with blood and establishes a city by unrighteousness! 13 Behold, is it not of Jehovah of hosts that the peoples labor for the fire and the nations weary themselves for vanity? 14 For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of Jehovah, as the waters cover the sea.
15 Woe to him who gives his neighbor drink, who adds your venom and also makes him drunken, that you may look on their nakedness! 16 You are filled with shame and not glory. Drink you also and be as one uncircumcised. The cup of Jehovah's right hand will come around to you and foul shame will be upon your glory.
17 For the violence done to Lebanon will cover you and the plunder of the beasts (which made them afraid), because of men's blood and for the violence done to the land, to the city and to all who dwell in it.
18 What profits the graven image, that the maker of it has engraved it, the molten image, even the teacher of lies, that he who fashions its form trusts in it, to make dumb idols?
19 Woe to him who says to the wood, Awake! To the dumb stone, Arise! Shall this teach? Behold, it is overlaid with gold and silver and there is no breath at all in the midst of it.
20 But Jehovah is in his holy temple. Let all the earth keep silence before him.
6 Shall not all these take up a parable against him and a taunting proverb against him and say, Woe to him who increases what is not his (how long?) and who loads himself with pledges! 7 Shall they not rise up suddenly that will bite you and awake that will besiege you. And you will be for booty to them?
8 Because you have plundered many nations, all the remnant of the peoples will plunder you, because of men's blood and for the violence done to the land, to the city and to all who dwell in it.
9 Woe to him who gets an evil gain for his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the hand of evil! 10 You have devised shame to your house, by cutting off many peoples and have sinned against your soul. 11 For the stone will cry out of the wall and the beam out of the timber will answer it.
12 Woe to him who builds a town with blood and establishes a city by unrighteousness! 13 Behold, is it not of Jehovah of hosts that the peoples labor for the fire and the nations weary themselves for vanity? 14 For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of Jehovah, as the waters cover the sea.
15 Woe to him who gives his neighbor drink, who adds your venom and also makes him drunken, that you may look on their nakedness! 16 You are filled with shame and not glory. Drink you also and be as one uncircumcised. The cup of Jehovah's right hand will come around to you and foul shame will be upon your glory.
17 For the violence done to Lebanon will cover you and the plunder of the beasts (which made them afraid), because of men's blood and for the violence done to the land, to the city and to all who dwell in it.
18 What profits the graven image, that the maker of it has engraved it, the molten image, even the teacher of lies, that he who fashions its form trusts in it, to make dumb idols?
19 Woe to him who says to the wood, Awake! To the dumb stone, Arise! Shall this teach? Behold, it is overlaid with gold and silver and there is no breath at all in the midst of it.
20 But Jehovah is in his holy temple. Let all the earth keep silence before him.