6 There were linen, fine cotton and blue+ held fast in ropes of fine fabric, and wool dyed reddish purple+ in silver rings and pillars of marble, couches+ of gold and silver upon a pavement of porphyry* and marble and pearl and black marble.
8 And on garments seized as a pledge they stretch themselves out+ beside every altar;+ and the wine of those who have been fined they drink at the house of their gods.’*+
4 [YOU men] that are lying down on couches of ivory+ and are sprawling on their divans, and are eating the rams out of a flock and the young bulls from among fattened calves;+