Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: "Behold, my servants shall eat, but you shall be hungry; behold, my servants shall drink, but you shall be thirsty; behold, my servants shall rejoice, but you shall be put to shame;
While people are saying, "There is peace and security," then sudden destruction will come upon them as labor pains come upon a pregnant woman, and they will not escape.
In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth, when you see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and all the prophets in the kingdom of God but you yourselves cast out.
I will turn your feasts into mourning and all your songs into lamentation; I will bring sackcloth on every waist and baldness on every head; I will make it like the mourning for an only son and the end of it like a bitter day.
These also reel with wine and stagger with strong drink; the priest and the prophet reel with strong drink, they are swallowed by[2] wine, they stagger with strong drink, they reel in vision, they stumble in giving judgment.
They will pass through the land,[7] greatly distressed and hungry. And when they are hungry, they will be enraged and will speak contemptuously against[8] their king and their God, and turn their faces upward.
Those who were full have hired themselves out for bread, but those who were hungry have ceased to hunger. The barren has borne seven, but she who has many children is forlorn.