12. Unto whom He hath said, `This [is] the rest, give ye rest to the weary, And this--the refreshing:' And they have not been willing to hear,
13. And to whom a word of Jehovah hath been, Rule on rule, rule on rule, line on line, line on line, A little here, a little there, So that they go and have stumbled backward, And been broken, and snared, and captured.
14. Therefore, hear a word of Jehovah, ye men of scorning, Ruling this people that [is] in Jerusalem.
15. Because ye have said: `We have made a covenant with death, And with Sheol we have made a provision, An overflowing scourge, when it passeth over, Doth not meet us, Though we have made a lie our refuge, And in falsehood have been hidden.'
16. Therefore, thus said the Lord Jehovah: `Lo, I am laying a foundation in Zion, A stone- -a tried stone, a corner stone precious, a settled foundation, He who is believing doth not make haste.