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11 Wail, you residents of the Hollow,[a]
for all the merchants[b] will be silenced;
all those loaded with silver will be cut off.

12 And at that time I will search Jerusalem with lamps
and punish those who settle down comfortably,[c](A)
who say to themselves:
‘The Lord will do nothing – good or bad.’(B)
13 Their wealth will become plunder
and their houses a ruin.
They will build houses but never live in them,
plant vineyards but never drink their wine.(C)

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Footnotes

  1. 1:11 Or the market district
  2. 1:11 Or Canaanites
  3. 1:12 Lit who thicken on their dregs