14. Thus saith the Lord the God of hosts: Because you have spoken this word, behold I will make my words in thy mouth as fire, and this people as wood, and it shall devour them.
15. Behold I will bring upon you a nation from afar, O house of Israel, saith the Lord: a strong nation, an ancient nation, a nation whose language thou shalt not know, nor understand what they say.
16. Their quiver is as an open sepulchre, they are all valiant.
17. And they shall eat up thy corn, and thy bread: they shall devour thy sons, and thy daughters: they shall eat up thy flocks, and thy herds: they shall eat thy vineyards, and thy figs: and with the sword they shall destroy thy strong cities, wherein thou trustest.
18. Nevertheless in those days, saith the Lord, I will not bring you to utter destruction.
19. And if you shall say: why hath the Lord our God done all these things to us? thou shalt say to them: As you have forsaken me, and served a strange god in your own land, so shall you serve strangers in a land that is not your own.
20. Declare ye this to the house of Jacob, and publish it in Juda, saying:
21. Hear, O foolish people, and without understanding: who have eyes, and see not: and ears, and hear not.
22. Will not you then fear me, saith the Lord: and will you not repent at my presence? I have set the sand a bound for the sea, an everlasting ordinance, which it shall not pass over: and the waves thereof shall toss themselves, and shall not prevail: they shall swell, and shall not pass over it.
23. But the heart of this people is become hard of belief and provoking, they are revolted and gone away.
24. And they have not said in their heart: let us fear the Lord our God, who giveth us the early and the latter rain in due season: who preserveth for us the fullness of the yearly harvest.
25. Your iniquities have turned these things away, and your sins have withholden good things from you.
26. For among my people are found wicked men, that lie in wait as fowlers, setting snares and traps to catch men.
27. As a net is full of birds, so their houses are full of deceit: therefore are they become great and enriched.