9. Why should You be like a man astonished,Like a mighty one who cannot save?Yet You, O Lord, are in our midst,And we are called by Your name;Do not leave us!
10. Thus says the Lord to this people:“Thus they have loved to wander;They have not restrained their feet.Therefore the Lord does not accept them;He will remember their iniquity now,And punish their sins.”
11. Then the Lord said to me, “Do not pray for this people, for their good.
12. When they fast, I will not hear their cry; and when they offer burnt offering and grain offering, I will not accept them. But I will consume them by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence.”
13. Then I said, “Ah, Lord God! Behold, the prophets say to them, ‘You shall not see the sword, nor shall you have famine, but I will give you assured peace in this place.’ ”