8 And now, go, write it before them on a tabletand inscribe it in a book,that it may be for the time to comeas a witness forever.
9 For they are a rebellious people,lying children,children unwilling to hearthe instruction of the Lord;
10 who say to the seers, “Do not see,”and to the prophets, “Do not prophesy to us what is right;speak to us smooth things,prophesy illusions,
11 leave the way, turn aside from the path,let us hear no more about the Holy One of Israel.”
12 Therefore thus says the Holy One of Israel,“Because you despise this wordand trust in oppression and perversenessand rely on them,
13 therefore this iniquity shall be to you like a breach in a high wall, bulging out, and about to collapse,whose breaking comes suddenly, in an instant;
14 and its breaking is like that of a potter’s vesselthat is smashed so ruthlesslythat among its fragments not a shard is foundwith which to take fire from the hearth,or to dip up water out of the cistern.”