11 get out of the way;step off the path;let’s have no more ‘holy one of Israel.’"
12 Therefore, the holy one of Israel says:Because you reject this wordand trust in oppression and cunning and rely on them,
13 your sin will be like a crack in a high wall; it bulges, about to fall:suddenly, in an instant, it breaks!
14 Its breaking is like the breaking of a storage jarthat is totally shattered.No piece from among its fragments will be large enough to take fire from a hearth,or to dip water from a cistern.
15 Therefore, the Lord God,the holy one of Israel, says:In return and rest you will be saved;quietness and trust will be your strength—but you refused.
16 You said,"No! We’ll flee on horses"—therefore, you will indeed flee—"and we’ll ride off; on swift steeds we will ride"—therefore, your pursuers will be swift.
17 One thousand will flee at the threat of one,and at the threat of five you will flee,until you are left like a flagstaff on a mountaintop,like a flag on a hill.