Her gates have sunk into the ground. He has destroyed and broken her bars. Her king and her princes are among the nations where the law is not. Yes, her prophets find no vision from YHWH.
Mischief will come on mischief, and rumor will be on rumor. They will seek a vision of the prophet; but the law will perish from the priest, and counsel from the elders.
They said to me, “The remnant that remains from the exile there in the province are in great trouble and disgrace. The wall of Jerusalem is also broken down, and its gates have been burned with fire.”
The warriors of Babylon have stopped fighting, they remain in their strongholds. Their might has failed. They have become like women. Her dwelling places are set on fire. Her bars are broken.
YHWH will bring you, and your king whom you will set over yourselves, to a nation that you have not known, you nor your fathers. There you will serve other gods of wood and stone.
I will spread my net on him, and he will be taken in my snare. I will bring him to Babylon, and will enter into judgment with him there for his trespass that he has trespassed against me.
I will also spread my net on him, and he will be taken in my snare. I will bring him to Babylon to the land of the Chaldeans; yet he will not see it, though he will die there.
“Y’all go away!” they cried to them. “Unclean! Go away, y’all! Go away, y’all! Y’all must not touch us! So they fled and wandered, and it was said among the nations, “They can’t live here any more.”
Judah has gone into captivity because of affliction and because of great servitude. She dwells among the nations. She finds no rest. All her persecutors overtook her in her distress.
Then YHWH said to me, “The prophets are prophesying lies in my name. I didn’t send them. I didn’t command them. I didn’t speak to them. They are prophesying to y’all a lying vision, divination, and a thing of nothing, and the deceit of their own heart.
YHWH Almighty says, “Y’all must not listen to the words of the prophets who prophesy to y’all. They teach y’all vanity. They speak a vision of their own heart, and not out of the mouth of YHWH.
I will break the bar of Damascus, and cut off the inhabitant from the valley of Aven, and him who holds the scepter from the house of Eden; and the people of Syria will go into captivity to Kir,” says YHWH.
This is what will happen: Just as YHWH rejoiced over y’all to prosper and multiply y’all, so YHWH will rejoice over y’all to destroy and annihilate y’all. Y’all will be torn from the land that you are going in to possess.