My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you, that you may be no priest to me. Because you have forgotten your God’s law, I will also forget your children.
Therefore Lord YHWH says, “Look, I am laying in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious cornerstone of a sure foundation. He who believes will not by hurried.
When its boughs are withered, they will be broken off. The women will come and set them on fire, for they are a people of no understanding. Therefore he who made them will not have compassion on them, and he who formed them will show them no favor.
One of them went out into the field to gather herbs, and found a wild vine and gathered a lap full of wild gourds from it. He came and cut them up into the pot of stew, though they didn’t recognize them.