12. For behold the Lord hath commanded, and he will strike the greater house with breaches, and the lesser house with clefts.
13. Can horses run upon the rocks, or can any one plough with buffles? for you have turned judgment into bitterness, and the fruit of justice into wormwood.
14. You that rejoice in a thing of nought: you that say: Have we not taken unto us horns by our own strength?
15. But behold, I will raise up a nation against you, O house of Israel, saith the Lord the God of hosts; and they shall destroy you from the entrance of Emath, even to the torrent of the desert.