Sober up, you drunkards! Cry long and loud; your wine supply is gone.
Then I said to the people of Israel, “Put on sackcloth! Mourn and cry out, ‘The LORD is still angry with us.’ ”
Ezekiel, son of man, tell the people of Egypt that I am saying: Cry out in despair,
Mourn for our farms and our vineyards! There's no wheat or barley growing in our fields.
Mourn, you priests who serve at the altar of my God. Spend your days and nights wearing sackcloth. Offerings of grain and wine are no longer brought to the LORD's temple.
and gambled to see who would get my people; they sold boys and girls to pay for prostitutes and wine.
There was once a rich man who wore expensive clothes and every day ate the best food.
You rich people should cry and weep! Terrible things are going to happen to you.