7. Should you talk that way, O family of Israel?Will the lord’s Spirit have patience with such behavior?If you would do what is right,you would find my words comforting.
8. Yet to this very hourmy people rise against me like an enemy!You steal the shirts right off the backsof those who trusted you,making them as ragged as menreturning from battle.
9. You have evicted women from their pleasant homesand forever stripped their children of all that God would give them.
10. Up! Begone!This is no longer your land and home,for you have filled it with sinand ruined it completely.
11. Suppose a prophet full of lies would say to you,“I’ll preach to you the joys of wine and alcohol!”That’s just the kind of prophet you would like!
12. “Someday, O Israel, I will gather you;I will gather the remnant who are left.I will bring you together again like sheep in a pen,like a flock in its pasture.Yes, your land will againbe filled with noisy crowds!
13. Your leader will break outand lead you out of exile,out through the gates of the enemy cities,back to your own land.Your king will lead you;the lord himself will guide you.”