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12 The harp, lyre, tambourine, and flute, with wine, are at their feasts;
    but they don’t respect the work of Yahweh,
    neither have they considered the operation of his hands.

13 Therefore my people go into captivity for lack of knowledge.
    Their honorable men are famished,
    and their multitudes are parched with thirst.
14 Therefore Sheol[a] has enlarged its desire,
    and opened its mouth without measure;
    and their glory, their multitude, their pomp, and he who rejoices among them, descend into it.

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Footnotes

  1. 5:14 Sheol is the place of the dead.