¹⁴ who says, I will build me a wide house and spacious chambers, and cuts him out windows; and it is ceiling with cedar, and painted with vermilion.

² that the king said to Nathan the prophet, See now, I dwell in a house of cedar, but the ark of God dwells within curtains.

⁴ "Is it a time for you yourselves to dwell in your paneled houses, while this house lies waste?

⁸ Woe to those who join house to house, Who lay field to field, until there is no room, And you are made to dwell alone in the midst of the land!

⁹ In my ears, Yahweh of Hosts says: "Surely many houses will be desolate, Even great and beautiful, unoccupied.

²⁸ For which of you, desiring to build a tower, doesn't first sit down and count the cost, to see if he has enough to complete it?

²⁹ Or perhaps, when he has laid a foundation, and is not able to finish, everyone who sees begins to mock him,

⁴ Whereas Edom says, "We are beaten down, but we will return and build the waste places;" thus says Yahweh of Hosts, "They shall build, but I will throw down; and men will call them 'The Wicked Land,' even the people against whom Yahweh shows wrath forever."

³⁰ The king spoke and said, Is not this great Babylon, which I have built for the royal dwelling-place, by the might of my power and for the glory of my majesty?

⁹ All the people shall know, [even] Ephraim and the inhabitant of Samaria, who say in pride and in arrogance of heart,

¹⁷ The beams of our house are cedars. Our rafters are firs. Beloved

²⁷ Prepare your work outside, And get your fields ready. Afterwards, build your house.

¹⁹ He who loves disobedience loves strife. One who builds a high gate seeks destruction.

⁵ The greater house he made a ceiling with fir-wood, which he overlaid with fine gold, and worked thereon palm trees and chains.