11 For they have healed the hurt of the daughter of My people slightly,Saying, ‘Peace, peace!’When there is no peace.
12 Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination?No! They were not at all ashamed,Nor did they know how to blush.Therefore they shall fall among those who fall;In the time of their punishmentThey shall be cast down,” says the Lord.
13 “I will surely consume them,” says the Lord.“No grapes shall be on the vine,Nor figs on the fig tree,And the leaf shall fade;And the things I have given them shall pass away from them.” ’ ”
14 “Why do we sit still?Assemble yourselves,And let us enter the fortified cities,And let us be silent there.For the Lord our God has put us to silenceAnd given us water of gall to drink,Because we have sinned against the Lord.
15 “We looked for peace, but no good came;And for a time of health, and there was trouble!
16 The snorting of His horses was heard from Dan.The whole land trembled at the sound of the neighing of His strong ones;For they have come and devoured the land and all that is in it,The city and those who dwell in it.”
17 “For behold, I will send serpents among you,Vipers which cannot be charmed,And they shall bite you,” says the Lord.