8. You are the hope of Israel,its savior in times of trouble.Why are you like a stranger in the land,like a tourist spending only the night?
9. Why are you like one taken by surprise,like a warrior unable to act?Yet you are in our midst, Lord;we are called by your name.Don’t give up on us.
10. This is what the Lord proclaims about this people:Since they have loved to wander offand haven’t restrained themselves,I won’t accept them.Now I will recall their wrongdoingand punish their sin.
11. The Lord said to me: Don’t pray for the safety of these people.
12. When they fast, I won’t pay attention to their pleas, and when they offer entirely burned offerings and grain offerings, I won’t accept them. Instead, I will devour them with war, famine, and disease.
13. I replied, "Lord God, the prophets are telling them: ‘You won’t see war or famine, for I will give you lasting peace in this place.’"
14. Then the Lord said to me: The prophets are telling lies in my name. I haven’t sent them. I haven’t commanded them. I haven’t spoken to them. They are prophesying to you false visions, worthless predictions, and deceit they have made up on their own.
15. Therefore, this is what the Lord proclaims concerning the prophets who are speaking in my name when I didn’t send them, and who are telling you that war or famine will never come to this land: Those very prophets will die in war and by famine!
16. And the people they are prophesying to will be thrown into the streets of Jerusalem, victims of famine and war. There will be no one to bury them or their wives and children. I will pour out on them their own wickedness.