¹³ Listen! The Lord Almighty has commanded this: All the work that people do to get things for themselves is useless. The things that the nations work so hard to get will become smoke! ¹⁴ But people everywhere will one day recognize the Lord's great glory. Those people will fill the whole earth, as the waters fill the sea.

¹⁵ It will be very bad for you! You cause your neighbours to become drunk.^[a] You are so angry that you make them drink too much wine. You are happy when they are so drunk that you can see their bare bodies.