10. I will give their wives to othersand their farms to strangers.From the least to the greatest,their lives are ruled by greed.Yes, even my prophets and priests are like that.They are all frauds.
11. They offer superficial treatmentsfor my people’s mortal wound.They give assurances of peacewhen there is no peace.
12. Are they ashamed of these disgusting actions?Not at all—they don’t even know how to blush!Therefore, they will lie among the slaughtered.They will be brought down when I punish them,says the lord.
13. I will surely consume them.There will be no more harvests of figs and grapes.Their fruit trees will all die.Whatever I gave them will soon be gone.I, the lord, have spoken!’
14. “Then the people will say,‘Why should we wait here to die?Come, let’s go to the fortified towns and die there.For the lord our God has decreed our destructionand has given us a cup of poison to drinkbecause we sinned against the lord.
15. We hoped for peace, but no peace came.We hoped for a time of healing, but found only terror.’
16. “The snorting of the enemies’ warhorses can be heardall the way from the land of Dan in the north!The neighing of their stallions makes the whole land tremble.They are coming to devour the land and everything in it—cities and people alike.
17. I will send these enemy troops among youlike poisonous snakes you cannot charm.They will bite you, and you will die.I, the lord, have spoken!”
18. My grief is beyond healing;my heart is broken.