I will vent my rage against the wall, and against those who coated it with whitewash. Then I will say to you, “The wall is no more and those who whitewashed it are no more –

<p class="poetry">They do not comprehend or understand,p> <p class="poetry">for their eyes are blind and cannot see;p> <p class="poetry">their minds do not discern.<n id="1" />p>

When the wall has collapsed, people will ask you, &#8220;Where is the whitewash you coated it with?&#8221;p>

They are then to take other stones and replace those stones,<n id="1" /> and he is to take other plaster and replaster the house.p>

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;If the infection returns and breaks out in the house after he has pulled out the stones, scraped the house, and it is replastered,<n id="1" />

This includes 3,000 talents<n id="1" /> of gold from Ophir and 7,000 talents of refined silver for overlaying the walls of the buildings,

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;&#8216;This is because they have led my people astray saying, &#8220;All is well,&#8221;<n id="1" /> when things are not well. When anyone builds a wall without mortar,<n id="2" /> they coat it with whitewash.

Tell the ones who coat it with whitewash that it will fall. When there is a deluge of rain, hailstones<n id="1" /> will fall and a violent wind will break out.<n id="2" />

I will break down the wall you coated with whitewash and knock it to the ground so that its foundation is exposed. When it falls you will be destroyed beneath it,<n id="1" /> and you will know that I am the <sc>Lordsc>.

Her prophets coat their messages with whitewash.<n id="1" /> They see false visions and announce lying omens for them, saying, &#8216;This is what the sovereign <sc>Lordsc> says,&#8217; when the <sc>Lordsc> has not spoken.

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;If, however, the priest enters<n id="1" /> and examines it, and the<n id="2" /> infection has not spread in the house after the house has been replastered, then the priest is to pronounce the house clean because the infection has been healed.