“I have heard many things like these before. What miserable comforters ¹  are you all!

But you who remained faithful to the Lord your God are still alive to this very day, every one of you.

But you, however, are inventors of lies; ¹  all of you are worthless physicians! ² 

If you yourselves have all seen this, Why in the world ¹  do you continue this meaningless talk? ² 

I thought, ¹  ‘You are gods; all of you are sons of the Most High.’ ² 

“Why do you try to refute me? ¹  All of you have rebelled against me,” says the Lord.

All you Israelites, ¹  make a decision here!” ² 

How long will you threaten ¹  a man? All of you are murderers, ²  as dangerous as a leaning wall or an unstable fence. ³ 

You are standing today, all of you, before the Lord your God – the heads of your tribes, ¹  your elders, your officials, every Israelite man,

He told ¹  them, “Look, set an ambush behind the city. Don’t go very far from the city; all of you be ready!

All of you, gather together and listen! Who among them ¹  announced these things? The Lord’s ally ²  will carry out his desire against Babylon; he will exert his power against the Babylonians. ³ 

Look, all of you who start a fire and who equip yourselves with ¹  flaming arrows, ²  walk ³  in the light ⁴  of the fire you started and among the flaming arrows you ignited! ⁵  This is what you will receive from me: ⁶  you will lie down in a place of pain. ⁷ 

Therefore this is what the sovereign Lord says: ‘Because all of you ¹  have become slag, look out! – I am about to gather you in the middle of Jerusalem. ² 

So all of you approached me and said, “Let’s send some men ahead of us to scout out the land and bring us back word as to how we should attack it and what the cities are like there.”

For all of you have conspired against me! No one informs me ¹  when my own son makes an agreement with this son of Jesse! Not one of you feels sorry for me or informs me that my own son has commissioned my own servant to hide in ambush against me, as is the case today!”