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⁸Now go, write it on a tablet before them And inscribe it on a scroll, That it may serve IN THE TIME TO COME As a witness forever. ⁹For this is a REBELLIOUS PEOPLE, false sons, Sons who REFUSE TO LISTEN To the instruction of the Lord; ¹⁰Who say to the seers, “YOU MUST NOT SEE visions “; And to the prophets, “YOU MUST NOT PROPHESY to us what is right, SPEAK TO US PLEASANT WORDS, PROPHESY ILLUSIONS. ¹¹”Get out of the way, turn aside from the path, LET US HEAR NO MORE about the Holy One of Israel.” ¹²Therefore thus says the Holy One of Israel, “Since you have REJECTED this word and have put your trust in OPPRESSION and guile, and have relied on them, ¹³Therefore this INIQUITY will be to you Like a breach about to fall, A bulge in a high wall, Whose COLLAPSE COMES SUDDENLY AND INSTANT, ¹⁴Whose collapse is like the smashing of a potter’s jar, So ruthlessly shattered that a sherd will not be found among its pieces to take fire from a hearth or to scoop water from a cistern.” ¹⁵For thus the Lord God, the Holy One of Israel, has said, “IN REPENTANCE AND REST YOU WILL BE SAVED, IN QUIETNESS AND TRUST IS YOUR STRENGTH.” But you were NOT WILLING.
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