7. For Egypt will offer assistance, but without purpose or success. Therefore, concerning this, I cried out: "It is only arrogance! Remain calm."
8. Now, therefore, enter and write for them upon a tablet, and note it diligently in a book, and this shall be a testimony in the last days, and even unto eternity.
9. For they are a people who provoke to wrath, and they are lying sons, sons unwilling to listen to the law of God.
10. They say to the seers, "Do not see," and to those who behold: "Do not behold for us the things that are right. Speak to us of pleasing things. See errors for us.
11. Take me from the way. Avert me from the path. Let the Holy One of Israel cease from before our face."