For instead of mourning and afflicting themselves before the Lord concerning the persecution of their brethren, and because that he was wroth with them, they were eating and drinking and making merry, delighting themselves with instruments of song and harps and psalteries, and were not grieved for the destruction of Judah for our wickedness and the wickedness of our fathers, as it is written concerning Judah, ‘That drink wine in bowls, and anoint themselves with the chief ointments; but they are not grieved for the affliction of Joseph.’ Even for this was wrath from the Lord upon Judah and Jerusalem, and he brought against them the king of Babylon, until he cast them out from his presence, and he carried Judah away from his land.