8 “How can you say, ‘We are wise,And the law of the Lord is with us’?Look, the false pen of the scribe certainly works falsehood.
9 The wise men are ashamed,They are dismayed and taken.Behold, they have rejected the word of the Lord;So what wisdom do they have?
10 Therefore I will give their wives to others,And their fields to those who will inherit them;Because from the least even to the greatestEveryone is given to covetousness;From the prophet even to the priestEveryone deals falsely.
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.