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.