12 I said, ‘Plant goodness,harvest the fruit of loyalty,plow the new ground of knowledge.Look for the Lord until he comesand pours goodness on you like water.’
13 But you have plowed eviland harvested trouble;you have eaten the fruit of your lies.Because you have trusted in your own powerand your many soldiers,
14 your people will hear the noise of battle,and all your strong, walled cities will be destroyed.It will be like the time King Shalmandestroyed Beth Arbel in battle,when mothers and their children were bashed to death.
15 The same will happen to you, people of Bethel,because you did so much evil.When the sun comes up,the king of Israel will die.