9 for this is a rebellious people, lying children,children who refuse to listen to the law of the Lord;
10 they say to the seers,“You must not see visions,”and to the prophets,“You must not prophesy to us right things;speak to us pleasant things,prophesy illusions.
11 Get out of the way,turn aside from the path,let us hear no moreabout the Holy One of Israel.”
12 Therefore, thus says the Holy One of Israel: Because you despise this wordand trust in oppression and perverseness,and rely on them,
13 therefore this iniquity shall be to youas a breach ready to fall, swelling up in a high wall,whose collapse comes suddenly, in an instant.
14 He shall break it as the breaking of the potter’s vesselthat is broken in pieces;He shall not spare so that there shall not be found in the breaking of it a shardto take fire from the hearthor with which to take water out of a cistern.
15 For thus says the Lord God, the Holy One of Israel: In returning and rest you shall be saved;in quietness and in confidence shall be your strength.Yet you were not willing,