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Now go, write it before them on a tablet,
    inscribe it on a scroll,
    so in the future it will endure as a witness.
These are rebellious people, lying children,
    children unwilling to hear the Lord’s teaching,
10     who say to the seers, “Don’t foresee,”
    and to the visionaries, “Don’t report truthful visions;
        tell us flattering things;
        envision deceptions;
11         get out of the way;
        step off the path;
        let’s have no more ‘holy one of Israel.’”

12 Therefore, the holy one of Israel says:

Because you reject this word
    and trust in oppression and cunning and rely on them,
13     your sin will be like a crack in a high wall; it bulges, about to fall:
    suddenly, in an instant, it breaks!
14 Its breaking is like the breaking of a storage jar
    that is totally shattered.
No piece from among its fragments will be large enough to take fire from a hearth,
    or to dip water from a cistern.

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