8. Hope of Israel, Lord,our savior in time of need!Why should you be a stranger in the land,like a traveler stopping only for a night?
9. Why are you like someone bewildered,a champion who cannot save?You are in our midst, Lord,your name we bear:do not forsake us!
10. Thus says the Lord about this people:They so love to wanderthat they cannot restrain their feet.The Lord takes no pleasure in them;now he remembers their guilt,and will punish their sins.
11. Then the Lord said to me: Do not intercede for the well-being of this people.
12. If they fast, I will not listen to their supplication. If they sacrifice burnt offerings or grain offerings, I will take no pleasure in them. Rather, I will destroy them with the sword, famine, and plague.
13. “Ah! Lord God,” I replied, “it is the prophets who say to them, ‘You shall not see the sword; famine shall not befall you. Indeed, I will give you lasting peace in this place.’”
14. These prophets utter lies in my name, the Lord said to me: I did not send them; I gave them no command, nor did I speak to them. They prophesy to you lying visions, foolish divination, deceptions from their own imagination.