For You have forsaken Your people, the house of Jacob, because they are filled from the east, and are spirit-knowers like the Philistines. And they clap hands with children of those being foreign.
By this, then, the iniquity of Jacob will be covered, and this is all the fruit, to take away his sin; when he makes all the stones of the altar as chalkstones that are beaten in pieces; Asherahs and sun pillars shall not rise.
And I said, Until when, O Lord? And He said, Until cities lie desolate without one living in them, and the houses without man, and the land is laid waste, a desolation;
The Lord swallowed up all of Jacob’s dwelling-places, and did not pity. In His wrath He has broken down the strongholds of the daughter of Judah. He made them touch to the earth. He has defiled the kingdom and its rulers.
And you shall say, I will go up to the land of open spaces. I will go to those at ease, who live securely, all of them living with no walls, and there are no bars and gates to them,
And an uproar shall rise up among your peoples. And all your strongholds shall be devastated as the violence by Shalman of Beth-arbel in the day of battle. The mother was dashed in pieces on her sons.
And he answered and spoke to me, saying, This is the Word of Jehovah to Zerubbabel, saying, Not by might, and not by power, but by My Spirit, says Jehovah of Hosts.