13. And the prophets are like wind, and the word is not in them.’ Thus it will be done to them.”
14. Therefore thus says Yahweh, the God of hosts, “Because you have spoken this word, look, I am making my words in your mouth like a fire, and this people wood, and it will devour them.
15. Look, I am about to bring on you a nation from afar, O house of Israel,” declares Yahweh. “It is an enduring nation, it is an ancient nation. A nation whose language you do not know, and you cannot understand what they speak.
16. Their quiver is like an open tomb, all of them are warriors.
17. And they will eat your harvest and your food, they will eat your sons and your daughters, they will eat your flock and your herd, they will eat your vine and your fig tree, they will smash with the sword your fortified cities, in which you trust.
18. “But even in those days,” declares Yahweh, “I will not make you a complete destruction.
19. And then, when you people say, ‘Why has Yahweh our God done all of these things to us?’ Then you will say to them, ‘As you have forsaken me and have served gods of a foreign land in your land, so will you serve strangers in a land that does not belong to you.’
20. “Declare this in the house of Jacob, and proclaim it in Judah, saying,
21. ‘Hear this please, O foolish and senseless people, who have eyes but do not see, who have ears but do not hear.’
22. Do you not revere me?” declares Yahweh, “Do you not tremble before me? For I have placed the sand as a boundary for the sea, as an everlasting limit, and it cannot pass over it, and they rise and fall loudly, but they cannot prevail, and its waves roar, but they cannot pass over it.
23. But for this people is a stubborn and rebellious heart, they have turned aside and have gone away.
24. And they do not say in their hearts, ‘Let us fear please Yahweh our God, the one who gives the autumn rain and the spring rain in its season, the set times of the harvest he keeps for us.’