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12 At their feasts there are lyres and harps,
    tambourines and flutes, and wine.
        Yet, they don’t pay attention to what Yahweh is doing
            or see what his hands have done.

13 “My people will go into exile
    because they don’t understand what I’m doing.
        Honored men will starve,
            and common people will be parched with thirst.”
14 That is why the grave’s appetite increases.
    It opens its mouth very wide
        so that honored people and common people will go down into it.
            Those who are noisy and joyous will go down into it.

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12 They have harps and lyres at their banquets,
    pipes(A) and timbrels(B) and wine,
but they have no regard(C) for the deeds of the Lord,
    no respect for the work of his hands.(D)
13 Therefore my people will go into exile(E)
    for lack of understanding;(F)
those of high rank(G) will die of hunger
    and the common people will be parched with thirst.(H)
14 Therefore Death(I) expands its jaws,
    opening wide its mouth;(J)
into it will descend their nobles and masses
    with all their brawlers and revelers.(K)

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