16. when you hear the great tumult?The Lord has named you“a spreading olive tree, a pleasure to behold”;Now he sets fire to it,its branches burn.
17. The Lord of hosts who planted you has decreed disaster for you because of the evil done by the house of Israel and by the house of Judah, who provoked me by sacrificing to Baal.
18. I knew it because the Lord informed me: at that time you showed me their doings.
19. Yet I was like a trusting lamb led to slaughter, not knowing that they were hatching plots against me: “Let us destroy the tree in its vigor; let us cut him off from the land of the living, so that his name will no longer be remembered.”
20. But, you, Lord of hosts, just Judge,searcher of mind and heart,Let me witness the vengeance you take on them,for to you I have entrusted my cause!