8 Go now, write it on a tablet for them,
inscribe it on a scroll,
that for the days to come
it may be an everlasting witness. |
9 These are rebellious people, deceitful children,
children unwilling to listen to the LORD's instruction. |
10 They say to the seers,
"See no more visions!"
and to the prophets,
"Give us no more visions of what is right!
Tell us pleasant things,
prophesy illusions. |
11 Leave this way,
get off this path,
and stop confronting us
with the Holy One of Israel!" |
12 Therefore, this is what the Holy One of Israel says: |
13 this sin will become for you
like a high wall, cracked and bulging,
that collapses suddenly, in an instant. |
14 It will break in pieces like pottery,
shattered so mercilessly
that among its pieces not a fragment will be found
for taking coals from a hearth
or scooping water out of a cistern." |
15 This is what the Sovereign LORD , the Holy One of Israel, says: |
16 You said, 'No, we will flee on horses.'
Therefore you will flee!
You said, 'We will ride off on swift horses.'
Therefore your pursuers will be swift! |
17 A thousand will flee
at the threat of one;
at the threat of five
you will all flee away,
till you are left
like a flagstaff on a mountaintop,
like a banner on a hill." |
