10 “The bricks have fallen, but we will build with dressed stone. The sycamore-fig trees were felled, but we will replace them with cedars.”
11 So Yahweh strengthened the adversaries of Rezin against him, and he provoked his enemies—
12 Aram from the east and Philistines from the west— and they devoured Israel with the whole mouth. He has not turned away his anger in all of this, and his hand is still stretched out.
13 And the people did not turn to the one who struck it, and they did not seek Yahweh of hosts.
14 So Yahweh cut off head and tail from Israel, palm branch and reed in one day.
15 Elders and the respectable are the head, and prophets who teach lies are the tail.
16 And the leaders of this people were misleading them, and those who were led were confused.