7. For the Egyptians shall help in vain and to no purpose; therefore I have cried out concerning this that your strength should be to sit still.
8. Now go, write this vision before them on a tablet and note it in a book that it may remain unto the last day, for ever, unto all ages.
9. That this is a rebellious people, lying sons, sons that did not desire to hear the law of the Lord:
10. Who say to those that see, See not; and to the prophets, Do not prophesy right things unto us, speak unto us smooth things, prophesy deceits:
11. Get you out of the way, turn aside out of the path, cause the Holy One of Israel to leave our presence.
12. Therefore thus saith the Holy One of Israel, Because ye despise this word, and trust in violence and perversity and build upon this:
13. Therefore this sin shall be to you as an open wall ready to fall and as a breach in a high defence, whose breaking comes suddenly at an instant.