9For it is a rebellious people, lying children, children who will not hear the law of Yahweh;
10who tell the seers, "Don`t see;" and to the prophets, "Don`t prophesy to us right things, speak to us smooth things, prophesy deceits,
11get you out of the way, turn aside out of the path, cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us.
12Why thus says the Holy One of Israel, Because you despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and rely thereon;
13therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking comes suddenly in an instant.
14He shall break it as a potter`s vessel is broken, breaking it in pieces without sparing; so that there shall not be found among the pieces of it a broken piece with which to take fire from the hearth, or to dip up water out of the cistern.
15For thus said the Lord Yahweh, the Holy One of Israel, In returning and rest shall you be saved; in quietness and in confidence shall be your strength. You would not:
