12. They have lied against Jehovah, And they say, `[It is] not He, Nor come in against us doth evil, Yea, sword and famine we do not see.
13. And the prophets become wind, And the word is not in them,' --thus it is done by them.
14. Therefore, thus said Jehovah, God of Hosts, Because of your speaking this word, Lo, I am making My words in thy mouth become fire, And this people wood, and it hath devoured them.
15. Lo, I am bringing against you a nation from afar, O house of Israel, an affirmation of Jehovah, A nation--strong it [is], a nation--from of old it [is], A nation--thou knowest not its tongue, Nor understandest what it speaketh.
16. Its quiver [is] as an open sepulchre, All of them--mighty ones.
17. And it hath consumed thy harvest and thy bread, They consume thy sons, and thy daughters, It consumeth thy flock, and thy herd, It consumeth thy vine, and thy fig-tree, It maketh poor thy fenced cities, In which thou art trusting--by the sword.
18. And even in those days, an affirmation of Jehovah, I do not make you a completion.
19. And it hath come to pass, when ye say, `For what hath Jehovah our God done to us all these?' That thou hast said unto them, `As ye have forsaken Me, And serve the gods of a foreigner in your land, So do ye serve strangers in a land not yours.
20. Declare ye this in the house of Jacob, And sound ye it in Judah, saying,