The witness they would not hear

8Now come, write it before them on a tablet, and inscribe it in a scroll, that it may stand for a later day, as a witness forever and ever.

9For they are a rebellious people, lying children, children unwilling to hear the law of Yahweh,

10who say to the seers, “Do not see,” and to the visionaries, “Do not envision for us what is right; speak to us smooth things; envision illusions.”

11Turn aside from the way; depart from the path; remove the Holy One of Israel from before us.

12Therefore thus says the Holy One of Israel: Because you have rejected this word, and have trusted in oppression and perversity, and have relied on it,

13Therefore this iniquity will be to you like a falling breach, bulging out in a high wall, whose breaking comes suddenly, in an instant.

14and its breaking is like the breaking of a potter’s jar, smashed without pity, so that among its shattered pieces not a shard is found with which to take fire from the hearth or to scoop water from a cistern.