Isaiah 30:8-14

Modern English Version

⁸ Now go, write it before them on a tablet,
    and note it in a book,
that it may serve in the time to come
    as a witness forever;
⁹ for this is a rebellious people, lying children,
    children who refuse to listen to the law of the Lord;
¹⁰ they say to the seers,
    “You must not see visions,”
and to the prophets,
    “You must not prophesy to us right things;
speak to us pleasant things,
    prophesy illusions.
¹¹ Get out of the way,
    turn aside from the path,
let us hear no more
    about the Holy One of Israel.”

Because you despise this word
    and trust in oppression and perverseness,
    and rely on them,
¹³ therefore this iniquity shall be to you
    as a breach ready to fall, swelling up in a high wall,
    whose collapse comes suddenly, in an instant.
¹⁴ He shall break it as the breaking of the potter’s vessel
    that is broken in pieces;
He shall not spare so that there shall not be found in the breaking of it a shard
    to take fire from the hearth
    or with which to take water out of a cistern.