8. So take warning, Jerusalem,or I will abandon you in disgustand make you desolate,a place where no one can live.”
9. This is what the Lord who rules over all said to me:“Those who remain in Israel will be like the grapes thoroughly gleaned from a vine.So go over them again, as though you were a grape harvesterpassing your hand over the branches one last time.”
10. I answered, “Who would listenif I spoke to them and warned them?Their ears are so closedthat they cannot hear!Indeed, what the Lord says is offensive to them.They do not like it at all.
11. I am as full of anger as you are, Lord,I am tired of trying to hold it in.”The Lord answered, “Vent it, then, on the children who play in the streetand on the young men who are gathered together.Husbands and wives are to be included,as well as the old and those who are advanced in years.