⁶ Do not add^(A) to his words,
    or he will rebuke you and prove you a liar.

¹¹ Woe^(A) to those who rise early in the morning
    to run after their drinks,
who stay up late at night
    till they are inflamed with wine.^(B)
12 They have harps and lyres at their banquets,
    pipes^(C) and timbrels^(D) and wine,
but they have no regard^(E) for the deeds of the Lord,
    no respect for the work of his hands.^(F)
13 Therefore my people will go into exile^(G)
    for lack of understanding;^(H)
those of high rank^(I) will die of hunger
    and the common people will be parched with thirst.^(J)
14 Therefore Death^(K) expands its jaws,
    opening wide its mouth;^(L)
into it will descend their nobles and masses
    with all their brawlers and revelers.^(M)
15 So people will be brought low^(N)
    and everyone humbled,^(O)
    the eyes of the arrogant^(P) humbled.
¹⁶ But the Lord Almighty will be exalted^(Q) by his justice,^(R)
    and the holy God will be proved holy^(S) by his righteous acts.

²¹ Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes^(A)
    and clever in their own sight.

²⁴ Therefore, as tongues of fire^(A) lick up straw^(B)
    and as dry grass sinks down in the flames,
so their roots will decay^(C)
    and their flowers blow away like dust;^(D)
for they have rejected the law of the Lord Almighty
    and spurned the word^(E) of the Holy One^(F) of Israel.

“These people^(A) come near to me with their mouth
    and honor me with their lips,^(B)
    but their hearts are far from me.^(C)
Their worship of me
    is based on merely human rules they have been taught.^[a](D)
14 Therefore once more I will astound these people
    with wonder upon wonder;^(E)
the wisdom of the wise^(F) will perish,
    the intelligence of the intelligent will vanish.^(G)”
¹⁵ Woe to those who go to great depths
    to hide^(H) their plans from the Lord,
who do their work in darkness and think,
    “Who sees us?^(I) Who will know?”^(J)
16 You turn things upside down,
    as if the potter were thought to be like the clay!^(K)
Shall what is formed say to the one who formed^(L) it,
    “You did not make me”?
Can the pot say to the potter,^(M)
    “You know nothing”?^(N)

⁸ “‘These people honor me with their lips,
    but their hearts are far from me.