11. Therefore, thus says the Lord: See, I am bringing upon them a disaster they cannot escape. Though they cry out to me, I will not listen to them.
12. Then the cities of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem will go and cry out to the gods to whom they have been offering incense. But these gods will give them no help whatever in the time of their disaster.
13. For as many as your citiesare your gods, O Judah!As many as the streets of Jerusalemare the altars for sacrifice to Baal.
14. Now, you must not intercede for this people; do not raise on their behalf a cry or prayer! I will not listen when they call to me in the time of their disaster.
15. What right has my beloved in my house,while she devises her plots?Can vows and sacred meat turn awayyour disaster from you?Will you still be jubilant
16. when you hear the great tumult?The Lord has named you“a spreading olive tree, a pleasure to behold”;Now he sets fire to it,its branches burn.
17. The Lord of hosts who planted you has decreed disaster for you because of the evil done by the house of Israel and by the house of Judah, who provoked me by sacrificing to Baal.
18. I knew it because the Lord informed me: at that time you showed me their doings.
19. Yet I was like a trusting lamb led to slaughter, not knowing that they were hatching plots against me: “Let us destroy the tree in its vigor; let us cut him off from the land of the living, so that his name will no longer be remembered.”
20. But, you, Lord of hosts, just Judge,searcher of mind and heart,Let me witness the vengeance you take on them,for to you I have entrusted my cause!
21. Therefore, thus says the Lord concerning the men of Anathoth who seek your life and say, “Do not prophesy in the name of the Lord; otherwise you shall die by our hand.”
22. Therefore, thus says the Lord of hosts: I am going to punish them. The young men shall die by the sword; their sons and daughters shall die by famine.