12. Then the people of Judah and those living in Jerusalem will call upon the gods they worship, but they won’t save them when disaster strikes.
13. You have as many gods as you have towns, Judah, and you have as many shameful altars for worshipping Baal as you have streets in Jerusalem.
14. As for you, don’t pray for these people, don’t cry out or plead for them, for I won’t listen when they cry out to me on account of their distress.
15. What are my loved ones doing in my templewhile working out their many evil schemes?Can sacred offerings cancel your sinso that you revel in your evil deeds?
16. The Lord named you,"A blossoming olive tree, fair and fruitful";but with the blast of a powerful stormhe will set it ablaze,until its branches are completely consumed.
17. The Lord of heavenly forces who planted you has announced disaster for you, because the people of Israel and Judah have done evil and made me angry by worshipping Baal.
18. The Lord informed me and I knew.Then he helped me see what they were up to.
19. I was like a young lamb led to the slaughter;I didn’t realize that they were planningtheir schemes against me:"Let’s destroy the tree with its fruit;let’s cut him off from the land of the livingso that even any knowledge of him will be wiped out."
20. Lord of heavenly forces, righteous judge,who tests the heart and mind,let me see your revenge upon them,because I have committed my case to you.
21. This is what the Lord says concerning the men from Anathoth who seek your life and say, "Don’t prophesy in the Lord’s name or else you will die at our hands."
22. Therefore, the Lord of heavenly forces proclaims, I’m going to punish them. Their young men will die in war, and their sons and daughters will die by famine.
23. No one will be left because I will bring disaster upon the men of Anathoth when their time comes.