8. Fed horses--they have been early risers, Each to the wife of his neighbour they neigh.
9. For these do I not lay a charge? An affirmation of Jehovah, And on a nation such as this, Doth not My soul avenge itself?
10. Go ye up on her walls, and destroy, And a completion make not, Turn aside her branches, for they [are] not Jehovah's,
11. For dealt treacherously against Me have the house of Israel, And the house of Judah, an affirmation of Jehovah.
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.