Peace without peace

10To whom can I speak and give warning so that they will listen? Look, their ears are uncircumcised, and they cannot listen. Look, the word of Yahweh has become an object of scorn to them; they take no delight in it.

11But I am full of the wrath of Yahweh; I am weary of holding it in. Pour it out on the children in the street and on the young men gathered together; for men and women alike will be captured, the old along with the very aged.

12Their houses will be turned over to others, together with their fields and wives; for I will stretch out my hand against the inhabitants of the land, declares Yahweh.

13For from their least to their greatest, every one of them is greedy for unjust gain; and from prophet to priest, every one of them practices falsehood.

14They have treated the wound of my people as though it were trivial, saying, ‘Peace, peace,’ when there is no peace.

15Were they ashamed because they had done an abomination? No, they were not ashamed at all; they did not even know how to blush. Therefore they will fall among the fallen; at the time I punish them, they will stumble, says Yahweh.