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13 Listen! The Lord Almighty has commanded this: All the work that people do to get things for themselves is useless. The things that the nations work so hard to get will become smoke! 14 But people everywhere will one day recognize the Lord's great glory. Those people will fill the whole earth, as the waters fill the sea.

15 It will be very bad for you! You cause your neighbours to become drunk.[a] You are so angry that you make them drink too much wine. You are happy when they are so drunk that you can see their bare bodies.

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  1. 2:15 The neighbours are probably the nations near to Babylon that Babylon has attacked.