⁸ “Behold, ^(A)the eyes of the Lord God are on the sinful kingdom,
And I ^(B)will destroy it from the face of the earth;
Yet I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob,”
Says the Lord.

⁹ “For surely I will command,
And will ^[a]sift the house of Israel among all nations,
As grain is sifted in a sieve;
^(C)Yet not the smallest ^[b]grain shall fall to the ground.
¹⁰ All the sinners of My people shall die by the sword,
^(D)Who say, ‘The calamity shall not overtake nor confront us.’

¹³ “Behold, ^(H)the days are coming,” says the Lord,
“When the plowman shall overtake the reaper,
And the treader of grapes him who sows seed;
^(I)The mountains shall drip with sweet wine,
And all the hills shall flow with it.
^14 (J)I will bring back the captives of My people Israel;
^(K)They shall build the waste cities and inhabit them;
They shall plant vineyards and drink wine from them;
They shall also make gardens and eat fruit from them.
¹⁵ I will plant them in their land,
^(L)And no longer shall they be pulled up
From the land I have given them,”
Says the Lord your God.

⁵ Thus says the Lord ^(A)concerning the prophets
Who make my people stray;
Who chant ^[a]“Peace”
^[b]While they ^(B)chew with their teeth,
But who prepare war against him
^(C)Who puts nothing into their mouths:
⁶ “Therefore^(D) you shall have night without ^[c]vision,
And you shall have darkness without divination;
The sun shall go down on the prophets,
And the day shall be dark for ^(E)them.
⁷ So the seers shall be ashamed,
And the diviners abashed;
Indeed they shall all cover their lips;
^(F)For there is no answer from God.”

⁸ But truly I am full of power by the Spirit of the Lord,
And of justice and might,
^(G)To declare to Jacob his transgression
And to Israel his sin.
⁹ Now hear this,
You heads of the house of Jacob
And rulers of the house of Israel,
Who abhor justice
And ^[d]pervert all equity,
^10 (H)Who build up Zion with ^(I)bloodshed
And Jerusalem with iniquity:
^11 (J)Her heads judge for a bribe,
^(K)Her priests teach for pay,
And her prophets divine for ^[e]money.
^(L)Yet they lean on the Lord, and say,
“Is not the Lord among us?
No harm can come upon us.”
¹² Therefore because of you
Zion shall be ^(M)plowed like a field,
^(N)Jerusalem shall become heaps of ruins,
And ^(O)the mountain of the ^[f]temple
Like the bare hills of the forest.