16. Their quiver is as an open sepulchre, they are all valiant.
17. And they shall eat up thy corn, and thy bread: they shall devour thy sons, and thy daughters: they shall eat up thy flocks, and thy herds: they shall eat thy vineyards, and thy figs: and with the sword they shall destroy thy strong cities, wherein thou trustest.
18. Nevertheless in those days, saith the Lord, I will not bring you to utter destruction.
19. And if you shall say: why hath the Lord our God done all these things to us? thou shalt say to them: As you have forsaken me, and served a strange god in your own land, so shall you serve strangers in a land that is not your own.
20. Declare ye this to the house of Jacob, and publish it in Juda, saying:
21. Hear, O foolish people, and without understanding: who have eyes, and see not: and ears, and hear not.