12. Therefore, thus says the Holy One of Israel: Because you despise this wordand trust in oppression and perverseness,and rely on them,
13. therefore this iniquity shall be to youas a breach ready to fall, swelling up in a high wall,whose collapse comes suddenly, in an instant.
14. He shall break it as the breaking of the potter’s vesselthat is broken in pieces;He shall not spare so that there shall not be found in the breaking of it a shardto take fire from the hearthor with which to take water out of a cistern.
15. For thus says the Lord God, the Holy One of Israel: In returning and rest you shall be saved;in quietness and in confidence shall be your strength.Yet you were not willing,
16. and you said, “No, for we will flee on horses”;therefore you shall flee.“And we will ride on swift horses”;therefore those who pursue you shall be swift.
17. One thousand shall fleeat the threat of one man;at the threat of fiveyou shall fleeuntil you are leftas a flag on the top of a mountainand as a banner on a hill.
18. Therefore, the Lord longs to be gracious to you,and therefore, He waits on high to have mercy on you;for the Lord is a God of justice;how blessed are all who long for Him.
19. O people in Zion, inhabitants in Jerusalem, you shall weep no more. He will be very gracious to you at the sound of your cry. When He hears it, He will answer you.
20. Though the Lord has given you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction, yet He, your Teacher, will no longer hide Himself, but your eyes shall see your Teacher.
21. Your ears shall hear a word behind you, saying, “This is the way, walk in it,” whenever you turn to the right hand and when you turn to the left.
22. You shall defile also your graven images overlaid with silver, and your molded images ornamented with gold. You shall scatter them as an impure thing, and say to them, “Be gone!”
23. Then He shall give you rain for the seed which you shall sow in the ground and bread of the increase of the earth. And it shall be rich and plentiful. On that day your cattle shall feed in large pastures.
24. The oxen likewise and the young donkeys that work the ground shall eat cured fodder, which has been winnowed with the shovel and fork.
25. There shall be on every high mountain and on every high hill rivers and streams of waters in the day of the great slaughter, when the towers fall.