⁸ Now go, write it before them on a tablet and note it in a book, that it may be for the time to come for ever and ever,

⁹ that this is a rebellious people, lying children, children that will not hear the law of the Lord,

¹⁰ who say to the seers, “See not,” and to the prophets, “Prophesy not unto us right things; speak unto us smooth things; prophesy deceits.

¹¹ Get you out of the way, turn aside out of the path, cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us.”

¹² Therefore thus saith the Holy One of Israel: “Because ye despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and stand thereon,

¹³ therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking cometh suddenly at an instant.

¹⁴ And 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 bursting of it a shard to take fire from the hearth, or to take water threby out of the pit.”