9. Are you also confused?Is our champion helpless to save us?You are right here among us, lord.We are known as your people.Please don’t abandon us now!”
10. So this is what the lord says to his people:“You love to wander far from meand do not restrain yourselves.Therefore, I will no longer accept you as my people.Now I will remember all your wickednessand will punish you for your sins.”
11. Then the lord said to me, “Do not pray for these people anymore.
12. When they fast, I will pay no attention. When they present their burnt offerings and grain offerings to me, I will not accept them. Instead, I will devour them with war, famine, and disease.”
13. Then I said, “O Sovereign lord, their prophets are telling them, ‘All is well—no war or famine will come. The lord will surely send you peace.’”