9. Why do you all scheme against the Lord?He will bring it to an end.It will not rise up a second time.
10. Because they are like interwoven thornsand as drunkards imbibing,they are consumed like completely dry stubble.
11. Out of you, O Nineveh, comes one,a worthless counselor,who devises evil against the Lord.
12. So the Lord says: “Even though they are full and many,they will be cut down, and it will pass away.Even though I have afflicted you,I will no longer afflict you, O Judah;
13. now I will break apart his yoke from over you,and I will tear apart your bonds.”
14. The Lord has given a command concerning you:“No longer will your name go forth.I will cut off the carved image and metal imagefrom the house of your gods.I will prepare your grave,for you are despised.”