6. When he is king, the people of Judah will be safe, and the people of Israel will live in peace. He will be called ‘The Lord Our Salvation’.
7. “The time is coming,” says the Lord, “when people will no longer swear by me as the living God who brought the people of Israel out of the land of Egypt.
8. Instead, they will swear by me as the living God who brought the people of Israel out of a northern land and out of all the other countries where I had scattered them. Then they will live in their own land.”
9. My heart is crushed,and I am trembling.Because of the Lord,because of his holy words,I am like a man who is drunk,a man who has had too much wine.
10. The land is full of people unfaithful to the Lord;they live wicked lives and misuse their power.Because of the Lord's curse the land mournsand the pastures are dry.
11. The Lord says,“The prophets and the priests are godless;I have caught them doing evil in the Temple itself.
12. The paths they follow will be slippery and dark;I will make them stumble and fall.I am going to bring disaster on them;the time of their punishment is coming.I, the Lord, have spoken.
13. I have seen the sin of Samaria's prophets:they have spoken in the name of Baaland have led my people astray.
14. But I have seen the prophets in Jerusalem do even worse:they commit adultery and tell lies;they help people to do wrong,so that no one stops doing what is evil.To me, they are all as badas the people of Sodom and Gomorrah.
15. “So then, this is what I, the Lord Almighty, say about the prophets of Jerusalem:I will give them bitter plants to eatand poison to drink,because they have spread ungodliness throughout the land.”