18But even in those days, says the Lord, I will not let your destruction be complete.
19And it will come about, when you say, Why has the Lord our God done all these things to us? that you will say to them, As you gave me up, making yourselves servants to strange gods in your land, so will you be servants to strange men in a land which is not yours.
20Say this openly in Jacob and give it out in Judah, saying,
21Give ear now to this, O foolish people without sense; who have eyes but see nothing, and ears without the power of hearing:
22Have you no fear of me? says the Lord; will you not be shaking with fear before me, who have put the sand as a limit for the sea, by an eternal order, so that it may not go past it? and though it is ever in motion, it is not able to have its way; though the sound of its waves is loud, they are not able to go past it.
23But the heart of this people is uncontrolled and turned away from me; they are broken loose and gone.
24And they do not say in their hearts, Now let us give worship to our God, who gives the rain, the winter and the spring rain, at the right time; who keeps for us the ordered weeks of the grain-cutting.
