10 You numbered the houses of Jerusalem, And the houses you broke down To fortify the wall.
11aYou also made a reservoir between the two walls For the water of the old bpool. But you did not look to its Maker, Nor did you have respect for Him who fashioned it long ago.
12 And in that day the Lord God of hosts aCalled for weeping and for mourning, bFor baldness and for girding with sackcloth.
13 But instead, joy and gladness, Slaying oxen and killing sheep, Eating meat and adrinking wine: b“Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die!”
14aThen it was revealed in my hearing by the Lord of hosts, “Surely for this iniquity there bwill be no atonement for you, Even to your death,” says the Lord God of hosts.
The Judgment on Shebna
15 Thus says the Lord God of hosts: “Go, proceed to this steward, To aShebna, who is over the house, andsay:
16 ‘What have you here, and whom have you here, That you have hewn a sepulcher here, As he awho hews himself a sepulcher on high, Who carves a tomb for himself in a rock?
Self-indulgence leads to excessive striving for yet more worldly pleasure. For those whose chief aim in life is sensual pleasure, there is never enough to satisfy. Self-indulgence can lead to full-blown addiction. Without God's truth of the coming resurrections of mankind, men see no reason to refrain from a life of pleasure and dissipation, ending in death.
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