¹³ I will put an end to the noise of your songs, and the sound of your instruments of music will be gone for ever.

³⁴ And in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem, I will put an end to the laughing voices, the voice of joy and the voice of the newly-married man and the voice of the bride: for the land will become a waste.

¹⁶ Take an instrument of music, go about the town, O loose woman who has gone out from the memory of man; make sweet melody with songs, so that you may come back to men's minds.

¹⁰ And more than this, I will take from them the sound of laughing voices, the voice of joy, the voice of the newly-married man, and the voice of the bride, the sound of the stones crushing the grain, and the shining of lights.

⁹ For the Lord of armies, the God of Israel, has said, See, before your eyes and in your days I will put an end in this place to the laughing voices and the voice of joy; to the voice of the newly-married man and the voice of the bride.

⁸ The pleasing sound of all instruments of music has come to an end, and the voices of those who are glad.

⁹ There is no more drinking of wine with a song; strong drink will be bitter to those who take it.

¹¹ Your pride has gone down into the underworld, and the noise of your instruments of music; the worms are under you, and your body is covered with them.

²² And the voice of players and makers of music will never again be sounding in you: and no worker, expert in art, will ever again be living in you; and there will be no sound of the crushing of grain any more at all in you;

²³ And never again will the shining of lights be seen in you; and the voice of the newly-married man and the bride will never again be sounding in you: for your traders were the lords of the earth, and by your evil powers were all the nations turned out of the right way.

¹ Come now, you men of wealth, give yourselves to weeping and crying because of the bitter troubles which are coming to you.

² Your wealth is unclean and insects have made holes in your clothing.

³ Your gold and your silver are wasted and their waste will be a witness against you, burning into your flesh. You have put by your store in the last days.

⁴ See, the money which you falsely kept back from the workers cutting the grass in your field, is crying out against you; and the cries of those who took in your grain have come to the ears of the Lord of armies.

⁵ You have been living delicately on earth and have taken your pleasure; you have made your hearts fat for a day of destruction.

⁴ Who are resting on beds of ivory, stretched out on soft seats, feasting on lambs from the flock and young oxen from the cattle-house;

⁵ Making foolish songs to the sound of corded instruments, and designing for themselves instruments of music, like David;

⁶ Drinking wine in basins, rubbing themselves with the best oils; but they have no grief for the destruction of Joseph.

⁷ So now they will go away prisoners with the first of those who are made prisoners, and the loud cry of those who were stretched out will come to an end.

¹¹ And I will put an end to all her joy, her feasts, her new moons, and her Sabbaths, and all her regular meetings.

¹³ You were in Eden, the garden of God; every stone of great price was your clothing, the sardius, the topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the emerald and the carbuncle: your store-houses were full of gold, and things of great price were in you; in the day when you were made they were got ready.

⁷ Is this the town which was full of joy, whose start goes back to times long past, whose wanderings took her into far-off countries?

² You, who are full of loud voices, a town of outcries, given up to joy; your dead men have not been put to the sword, or come to their death in war.

¹² And corded instruments and wind-instruments and wine are in their feasts: but they give no thought to the work of the Lord, and they are not interested in what his hands are doing.