12. Upon every height in the wildernessmarauders have appeared.The Lord has a sword that consumesthe land from end to end:no peace for any living thing.
13. They have sown wheat and reaped thorns,they have tired themselves out for no purpose;They are shamed by their harvest,the burning anger of the Lord.
14. Thus says the Lord, against all my evil neighbors who plunder the heritage I gave my people Israel as their own: See, I will uproot them from their land; the house of Judah I will uproot in their midst.
15. But after uprooting them, I will have compassion on them again and bring them back, each to their heritage, each to their land.
16. And if they truly learn my people’s custom of swearing by my name, “As the Lord lives,” just as they taught my people to swear by Baal, then they shall be built up in the midst of my people.
17. But if they do not obey, I will uproot and destroy that nation entirely—oracle of the Lord.