15. What right does My beloved haveto be in My house, having carried out so many evil schemes?Can holy meat prevent your disaster so you can rejoice?
16. The Lord named youa flourishing olive tree, beautiful with well-formed fruit.He has set fire to it,and its branches are consumed with a great roaring sound.
17. “The Lord of Hosts who planted you has decreed disaster against you, because of the harm the house of Israel and the house of Judah brought on themselves, provoking Me to anger by burning incense to Baal.”
18. The Lord informed me, so I knew.Then You helped me to see their deeds,
19. for I was like a docile lamb led to slaughter. I didn’t know that they had devised plots against me:“Let’s destroy the tree with its fruit; let’s cut him off from the land of the living so that his name will no longer be remembered.”
20. But, Lord of Hosts, who judges righteously,who tests heart and mind, let me see Your vengeance on them,for I have presented my case to You.
21. Therefore, here is what the Lord says concerning the people of Anathoth who want to take your life. They warn, “You must not prophesy in the name of Yahweh, or you will certainly die at our hand.”
22. Therefore, this is what the Lord of Hosts says: “I am about to punish them. The young men will die by the sword; their sons and daughters will die by famine.
23. They will have no remnant, for I will bring disaster on the people of Anathoth in the year of their punishment.”