14. All they ever offerto my deeply wounded peopleare empty hopes for peace.
15. They should be ashamedof their disgusting sins,but they don't even blush.And so, when I punish Judah,they will end up on the ground,dead like everyone else.I, the Lord, have spoken.
16. The Lord said:My people, when you stoodat the crossroads,I told you, “Follow the roadyour ancestors took,and you will find peace.”But you refused.
17. I also sent prophetsto warn you of danger,but when they sounded the alarm,you paid no attention.
18-19. So I tell all nations on earth,“Watch what I will do!My people ignored meand rejected my laws.They planned to do evil,and now the evil they plannedwill happen to them.”