6. This is the divine revelation about the animals in the Negev.“My people travel through landswhere they experience distress and hardship.Lions and lionesses live there.Vipers and poisonous snakes live there.They carry their riches on the backs of young donkeysand their treasures on the humps of camelsto a nation that can’t help them.
7. Egypt’s help is completely useless.That is why I call it, ‘Rahab who sits still.’
8. Now, write this on a tablet for them, and inscribe it in a bookso that it will be there in the future as a permanent witness.
9. These people are rebellious and deceitful children,children who refuse to listen to the Lord’s teachings.
10. They say to the seers, ‘Don’t see ⌊the future⌋.’They say to those who have visions,‘Don’t have visions that tell us what is right.Tell us what we want to hear. See illusions.
11. Get out of our way! Stop blocking our path!Get the Holy One of Israel out of our sight.’ ”
12. This is what the Holy One of Israel says:You have rejected this warning,trusted oppression and deceit,and leaned on them.
13. That is why your sin will belike a high wall with a bulging crack, ready to fall.All of a sudden it will fall.