Isaiah 5:12-14

New International Reader's Version

¹² They have harps and lyres at their banquets.
    They have tambourines, flutes and wine.
But they don’t have any concern for the mighty acts of the Lord.
    They don’t have any respect for what his power has done.
¹³ So my people will be taken away as prisoners.
    That’s because they don’t understand what the Lord has done.
Their nobles will die of hunger.
    The rest of the people won’t have any water to drink.
¹⁴ So Death opens its jaws to receive them.
    Its mouth is open wide to swallow them up.
Their nobles and the rest of the people will go down into it.
    They will go there together with all those who have wild parties.