¹³ Therefore, my people go into exile since they didn’t understand—
    their officials are dying of hunger;
    so many of them are dried up with thirst.
¹⁴ Therefore, the grave^[a] opens wide its jaws,
    opens its mouth beyond all bounds,
    and the splendid multitudes will go down, with all their uproar and cheering.
¹⁵ Humanity will be humiliated;
    each person laid low,
    the eyes of the exalted laid low.
¹⁶ But the Lord of heavenly forces will be exalted in justice,
    and the holy God will show himself holy in righteousness.
¹⁷ Lambs will graze as if in their pasture;
    young goats^[b] will feed among the ruins of the rich.^[c]

²⁴ Therefore, as a tongue of fire devours stubble,
    and as hay shrivels in a flame,
        so their roots will rot,
        and their blossoms turn to dust,
    for they have rejected the teaching of the Lord of heavenly forces,
        and have despised the word of Israel’s holy one.