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16 You will be sated with contempt instead of glory.
    Drink, you yourself, and stagger![a]
The cup in the Lord’s right hand
    will come around to you,
    and shame will come upon your glory!(A)
17 For the violence done to Lebanon will overwhelm you;
    the destruction of the animals will terrify you—[b]
because of human bloodshed and violence to the earth,
    to cities and all who live in them.(B)

18 What use is an idol
    once its maker has shaped it—
    a cast image, a teacher of lies?
For its maker trusts in what has been made,
    though the product is only an idol that cannot speak!(C)

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Footnotes

  1. 2.16 Q ms Gk: MT be uncircumcised
  2. 2.17 Gk Syr: Heb terrify them