Study Desk

Now come, write it before them on a tablet, and note it on a book, so that it may be for the latter day, until forever;

that this is a rebellious people, lying sons; sons who are not willing to hear the Law of Jehovah;

who say to the seers, Do not see; and to visioners, Do not have a vision for right things to us; speak smooth things to us; have a vision of trifles.

Turn aside from the way; stretch from the path; cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us.

For this reason, so says the Holy One of Israel, Because of your rejection of this Word, and your trust in oppression and perversity, even resting on it;

So this iniquity shall be to you as a broken section falling, like the bulging out of a high wall, the breaking of which comes suddenly, in an instant.

And its smashing is as the smashing of a potter's vessel; when broken in pieces, he has no pity; for in its breaking there is not found a shard to carry fire from the hearth, nor to skim water from a well.