17. And they will consume your grain fields and your bread. They will devour your sons and your daughters. They will consume your flocks and your herds. They will consume your vineyards and your figs. And with the sword, they will crush your fortified cities, in which you have placed your trust.
18. Yet truly, in those days, says the Lord, I will not bring the consummation over you.
19. And if they say, 'Why has the Lord our God done all these things to us?' You shall say to them: 'Just as you have abandoned me and have served a strange god in your own land, so will you serve strangers in a land not your own.'
20. Announce this to the house of Jacob, and make it known in Judah, saying:
21. Listen, O foolish people who have no heart! You have eyes, but you do not see, and ears, but you do not hear.
22. So then, will you not fear me, says the Lord. And will you not have sorrow before my face? I have placed the shore as a limit for the sea, as an everlasting precept that it will not transgress. And its waves will crash, but they will not prevail; and its waves will swell, but they will not go across.
23. But the heart of this people has become incredulous and provocative; they have turned away and departed.
24. And they have not said in their heart: 'Let us dread the Lord our God, who gives us the timely and the late rains, in their proper time, who guards the full measure of the yearly harvest for us.'
25. Your iniquities have turned these things away, and your sins have held back good things from you.
26. For the impious are found among my people; they lie in ambush like fowlers setting snares, for they set traps to catch men.