13. Small and great alike, all are greedy for gain;prophet and priest, all practice fraud.
14. They have treated lightlythe injury to my people:“Peace, peace!” they say,though there is no peace.
15. They have acted shamefully, committing abominations,yet they are not at all ashamed,they do not know how to blush.Therefore they will fall among the fallen;in the time of their punishment they shall stumble,says the Lord.
16. Thus says the Lord:Stand by the earliest roads,ask the pathways of old,“Which is the way to good?” and walk it;thus you will find rest for yourselves.But they said, “We will not walk it.”
17. I raised up watchmen for them:“Pay attention to the sound of the trumpet!”But they said, “We will not pay attention!”
18. Therefore hear, O nations,and know, O earth,what I will do with them: