9. Why should you be like someone who is helpless,like a champion who cannot save anyone?You are indeed with us,and we belong to you.Do not abandon us!”
10. Then the Lord spoke about these people. “They truly love to go astray.They cannot keep from running away from me.So I am not pleased with them.I will now call to mind the wrongs they have doneand punish them for their sins.”
11. Then the Lord said to me, “Do not pray for good to come to these people!
12. Even if they fast, I will not hear their cries for help. Even if they offer burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them. Instead, I will kill them through wars, famines, and plagues.”