8. Indeed, all their tables are covered with vomit;there is no place without a stench.
9. Who is he trying to teach?Who is he trying to instruct?Infants just weaned from milk?Babies removed from the breast?
10. For he says: “Law after law, law after law,line after line, line after line,a little here, a little there.”
11. So He will speak to this peoplewith stammering speechand in a foreign language.
12. He had said to them:“This is the place of rest,let the weary rest; this is the place of repose.”But they would not listen.
13. Then the word of the Lord came to them:“Law after law, law after law,line after line, line after line,a little here, a little there,” so they go stumbling backward,to be broken, trapped, and captured.
14. Therefore hear the word of the Lord, you mockers who rule this people in Jerusalem.
15. For you said, “We have cut a deal with Death,and we have made an agreement with Sheol;when the overwhelming scourge passes through, it will not touch us,because we have made falsehood our refugeand have hidden behind treachery.”
16. Therefore the Lord God said:“Look, I have laid a stone in Zion,a tested stone,a precious cornerstone, a sure foundation; the one who believes will be unshakable.
17. And I will make justice the measuring lineand righteousness the mason’s level.” Hail will sweep away the false refuge,and water will flood your hiding place.
18. Your deal with Death will be dissolved,and your agreement with Sheol will not last.When the overwhelming scourge passes through,you will be trampled.
19. Every time it passes through,it will carry you away;it will pass through every morning —every day and every night.Only terror will cause youto understand the message.
20. Indeed, the bed is too short to stretch out on,and its cover too small to wrap up in.
21. For the Lord will rise up as He did at Mount Perazim. He will rise in wrath, as at the Valley of Gibeon, to do His work, His strange work,and to perform His task, His disturbing task.