9. Shall I not visit for these things? saith Jehovah, and shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?
10. Go up upon her walls, and destroy; but make not a full end; take away her battlements, for they are not Jehovah's.
11. For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have dealt very treacherously against me, saith Jehovah.
12. They have denied Jehovah, and say, He is not; and evil shall not come upon us, nor shall we see sword nor famine;
13. and the prophets shall become wind, and the word is not in them: thus shall it be done unto them.
14. Therefore thus saith Jehovah, the God of hosts: Because ye speak this word, behold, I will make my words in thy mouth fire, and this people wood, and it shall devour them.
15. Behold, I bring a nation upon you from afar, house of Israel, saith Jehovah: it is a mighty nation, it is an ancient nation, a nation whose language thou knowest not, neither understandest thou what they say.
16. Their quiver is as an open sepulchre; they are all mighty men.
17. And they shall eat up thy harvest and thy bread, they shall eat up thy sons and thy daughters, they shall eat up thy flocks and thy herds, they shall eat up thy vines and thy fig-trees; they shall destroy with the sword thy strong cities, wherein thou trustedst.