11. For behold, Jehovah commandeth, and he will smite the great house with breaches, and the little house with clefts.
12. Shall horses run upon the rock? will men plough thereon with oxen? For ye have turned judgment into gall, and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood,
13. --ye that rejoice in a thing of nought, that say, Have we not taken to us power by our own strength?
14. For behold, O house of Israel, saith Jehovah the God of hosts, I will raise up against you a nation; and they shall afflict you from the entering in of Hamath unto the torrent of the Arabah.