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And now, go, 1write it before them on a tablet and inscribe it in a book, that it may be for the time to come as a witness forever.
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2For they are a rebellious people, lying children, children unwilling to hear the instruction of the LORD;
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3who say to 4the seers, "Do not see," and to the prophets, "Do not prophesy to us what is right; speak to us 5smooth things, prophesy illusions,
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leave the way, turn aside from the path, let us hear no more about the Holy One of Israel."
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Therefore thus says the Holy One of Israel, "Because you despise this word and trust in 6oppression and perverseness and rely on them,
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therefore this iniquity shall be to you 7like a breach in a high wall, bulging out, and about to collapse, whose breaking comes suddenly, in an instant;
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and its breaking is 8like that of a potter's vessel that is smashed so ruthlessly that among its fragments not a shard is found with which to take fire from the hearth, or to dip up water out of the cistern."
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For thus said the Lord GOD, the Holy One of Israel, "In 9returning and 10rest you shall be saved; in quietness and in trust shall be your strength." But you were unwilling,
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and you said, "No! We will flee upon 11horses"; therefore you shall flee away; and, "We will ride upon swift steeds"; therefore your pursuers shall be swift.
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12A thousand shall flee at the threat of one; at the threat of five you shall flee, till you are left like a flagstaff on the top of a mountain, like a signal on a hill.