1. What’s God going to say to my questions? I’m braced for the worst.I’ll climb to the lookout tower and scan the horizon.I’ll wait to see what God says,how he’ll answer my complaint.
12-14. “Who do you think you are—building a town by murder, a city with crime?Don’t you know that God-of-the-Angel-Armiesmakes sure nothing comes of that but ashes,Makes sure the harder you workat that kind of thing, the less you are?Meanwhile the earth fills upwith awareness of God’s gloryas the waters cover the sea.
15-17. “Who do you think you are—inviting your neighbors to your drunken parties,Giving them too much to drink,roping them into your sexual orgies?You thought you were having the time of your life.Wrong! It’s a time of disgrace.All the time you were drinking,you were drinking from the cup of God’s wrath.You’ll wake up holding your throbbing head, hung over—hung over from Lebanon violence,Hung over from animal massacres,hung over from murder and mayhem,From multiple violationsof place and people.