12. Over all the barren heights in the wildernessthe destroyers have come,for the Lord has a sword that devoursfrom one end of the earth to the other.No one has peace.
13. They have sown wheat but harvested thorns. They have exhausted themselves but have no profit. Be put to shame by your harvestsbecause of the Lord’s burning anger.
14. This is what the Lord says: “Concerning all My evil neighbors who attack the inheritance that I bequeathed to My people, Israel, I am about to uproot them from their land, and I will uproot the house of Judah from them.
15. After I have uprooted them, I will once again have compassion on them and return each one to his inheritance and to his land.
16. If they will diligently learn the ways of My people — to swear by My name, ‘As Yahweh lives,’ just as they taught My people to swear by Baal — they will be built up among My people.
17. However, if they will not obey, then I will uproot and destroy that nation.” This is the Lord’s declaration.