7. Egypt’s promises are worthless!Therefore, I call her Rahab—the Harmless Dragon.
8. Now go and write down these words.Write them in a book.They will stand until the end of timeas a witness
9. that these people are stubborn rebelswho refuse to pay attention to the lord’s instructions.
10. They tell the seers,“Stop seeing visions!”They tell the prophets,“Don’t tell us what is right.Tell us nice things.Tell us lies.
11. Forget all this gloom.Get off your narrow path.Stop telling us about your‘Holy One of Israel.’”
12. This is the reply of the Holy One of Israel:“Because you despise what I tell youand trust instead in oppression and lies,
13. calamity will come upon you suddenly—like a bulging wall that bursts and falls.In an instant it will collapseand come crashing down.
14. You will be smashed like a piece of pottery—shattered so completely thatthere won’t be a piece big enoughto carry coals from a fireplaceor a little water from the well.”
15. This is what the Sovereign lord,the Holy One of Israel, says:“Only in returning to meand resting in me will you be saved.In quietness and confidence is your strength.But you would have none of it.
16. You said, ‘No, we will get our help from Egypt.They will give us swift horses for riding into battle.’But the only swiftness you are going to seeis the swiftness of your enemies chasing you!