13 Therefore my people are gone into captivity, because they have no knowledge: and their honourable men are famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst.

14 Therefore hell hath enlarged herself, and opened her mouth without measure: and their glory, and their multitude, and their pomp, and he that rejoiceth, shall descend into it.

15 And the mean man shall be brought down, and the mighty man shall be humbled, and the eyes of the lofty shall be humbled:

16 But the Lord of hosts shall be exalted in judgment, and God that is holy shall be sanctified in righteousness.

17 Then shall the lambs feed after their manner, and the waste places of the fat ones shall strangers eat.

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13 Therefore my people will go into exile(A)
    for lack of understanding;(B)
those of high rank(C) will die of hunger
    and the common people will be parched with thirst.(D)
14 Therefore Death(E) expands its jaws,
    opening wide its mouth;(F)
into it will descend their nobles and masses
    with all their brawlers and revelers.(G)
15 So people will be brought low(H)
    and everyone humbled,(I)
    the eyes of the arrogant(J) humbled.
16 But the Lord Almighty will be exalted(K) by his justice,(L)
    and the holy God will be proved holy(M) by his righteous acts.
17 Then sheep will graze as in their own pasture;(N)
    lambs will feed[a] among the ruins of the rich.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 5:17 Septuagint; Hebrew / strangers will eat