13. ‘Woe to him who builds his palace by unrighteousness,his upper rooms by injustice,making his own people work for nothing,not paying them for their labour.
14. He says, “I will build myself a great palacewith spacious upper rooms.”So he makes large windows in it,panels it with cedarand decorates it in red.
15. ‘Does it make you a kingto have more and more cedar?Did not your father have food and drink?He did what was right and just,so all went well with him.
16. He defended the cause of the poor and needy,and so all went well.Is that not what it means to know me?’declares the Lord.