7. Egypt is totally incapable of helping.For this reason I call her‘Proud one who is silenced.’”
8. Now go, write it down on a tablet in their presence,inscribe it on a scroll,so that it might be preserved for a future timeas an enduring witness.
9. For these are rebellious people – they are lying children,children unwilling to obey the Lord’s law.
10. They say to the visionaries, “See no more visions!”and to the seers, “Don’t relate messages to us about what is right!Tell us nice things,relate deceptive messages.
11. Turn aside from the way,stray off the path.Remove from our presence the Holy One of Israel.”
12. For this reason this is what the Holy One of Israel says:“You have rejected this message;you trust instead in your ability to oppress and trick,and rely on that kind of behavior.
13. So this sin will become your downfall.You will be like a high wall that bulges and cracks and is ready to collapse;it crumbles suddenly, in a flash.
14. It shatters in pieces like a clay jar,so shattered to bits that none of it can be salvaged.Among its fragments one cannot find a shard large enoughto scoop a hot coal from a fireor to skim off water from a cistern.”
15. For this is what the master, the Lord, the Holy One of Israel says:“If you repented and patiently waited for me, you would be delivered;if you calmly trusted in me you would find strength,but you are unwilling.
16. You say, ‘No, we will flee on horses,’so you will indeed flee.You say, ‘We will ride on fast horses,’so your pursuers will be fast.