16. The Lord called your name, “A green olive tree,beautiful with goodly fruit.”With the noise of a great roar he has kindled fire on it,and its branches are broken.
17. For the Lord of Hosts, who planted you, has pronounced evil against you, because of the evil of the house of Israel and of the house of Judah, which they have done to themselves in provoking me to anger by offering incense to Baal.
18. The Lord gave me knowledge of it, and I knew it. Then you showed me their doings.
19. But I was like a gentle lamb that is led to the slaughter. I didn’t know that they had devised plans against me, saying,“Let’s destroy the tree with its fruit,and let’s cut him off from the land of the living,that his name may be no more remembered.”
20. But, the Lord of Hosts, who judges righteously,who tests the heart and the mind,I will see your vengeance on them;for to you I have revealed my cause.
21. “Therefore the Lord says concerning the men of Anathoth, who seek your life, saying, ‘You shall not prophesy in the Lord’s name, that you not die by our hand;’
22. therefore the Lord of Hosts says, ‘Behold, I will punish them. The young men will die by the sword. Their sons and their daughters will die by famine.
23. There will be no remnant to them, for I will bring evil on the men of Anathoth, even the year of their visitation.’”