<p class="poetry">&#8216;Don&#8217;t preach with such impassioned rhetoric,&#8217; they say excitedly.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">&#8216;These prophets should not preach of such things;p> <p class="poetry">we will not be overtaken by humiliation.&#8217;<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">I will remove the sorcery<n id="1" /> that you practice,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">and you will no longer have omen readers living among you.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">Therefore no one will assign you land in the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s community.<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">But you are the ones who will be forced to leave!<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">For this land is not secure!<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">Sin will thoroughly destroy it!<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">But they do not know what the <sc>Lordsc> is planning;p> <p class="poetry">they do not understand his strategy.p> <p class="poetry">He has gathered them like stalks of grain to be threshed<n id="1" /> at the threshing floor.p>

<p class="poetry">I will angrily seek vengeancep> <p class="poetry">on the nations that do not obey me.&#8221;<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">Residents<n id="1" /> of Shaphir,<n id="2" /> pass by in nakedness and humiliation!<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">The residents of Zaanan can&#8217;t leave their city.<n id="4" />p> <p class="poetry">Beth Ezel<n id="5" /> mourns,<n id="6" />p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;He takes from you what he desires.&#8221;<n id="7" />p>

<p class="poetry">There is no other God like you!<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">You<n id="2" /> forgive sinp> <p class="poetry">and pardon<n id="3" /> the rebellionp> <p class="poetry">of those who remain among your people.<n id="4" />p> <p class="poetry">You do not remain angry forever,<n id="5" />p> <p class="poetry">but delight in showing loyal love.p>

<p class="poetry">Therefore the <sc>Lordsc> says this: &#8220;Look, I am devising disaster for this nation!<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">It will be like a yoke from which you cannot free your neck.<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">You will no longer<n id="3" /> walk proudly,p> <p class="poetry">for it will be a time of catastrophe.p>

<p class="poetry">This is what the <sc>Lordsc> says: &#8220;The prophets who mislead my peoplep> <p class="poetry">are as good as dead.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">If someone gives them enough to eat,p> <p class="poetry">they offer an oracle of peace.<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">But if someone does not give them food,p> <p class="poetry">they are ready to declare war on him.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">Her<n id="1" /> leaders take bribes when they decide legal cases,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">her priests proclaim rulings for profit,p> <p class="poetry">and her prophets read omens for pay.p> <p class="poetry">Yet they claim to trust<n id="3" /> the <sc>Lordsc> and say,p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;The <sc>Lordsc> is among us.<n id="4" />p> <p class="poetry">Disaster will not overtake<n id="5" /> us!&#8221;p>

<p class="poetry">He will arbitrate<n id="1" /> between many peoplesp> <p class="poetry">and settle disputes between many<n id="2" /> distant nations.<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">They will beat their swords into plowshares,<n id="4" />p> <p class="poetry">and their spears into pruning hooks.<n id="5" />p> <p class="poetry">Nations will not use weapons<n id="6" /> against other nations,p> <p class="poetry">and they will no longer train for war.p>

<p class="poetry">Those survivors from<n id="1" /> Jacob will live<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">in the midst of many nations.<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">They will be like the dew the <sc>Lordsc> sends,p> <p class="poetry">like the rain on the grass,p> <p class="poetry">that does not hope for men to comep> <p class="poetry">or wait around for humans to arrive.<n id="4" />p>