Isaiah 30:8-16

8And now, go, write it before them on a tablet and inscribe it in a book, that it may be for the time to come as a witness forever.

9For they are a rebellious people, lying children, children unwilling to hear the instruction of the Lord;

10who say to the seers, "Do not see," and to the prophets, "Do not prophesy to us what is right; speak to us smooth things, prophesy illusions,

11leave the way, turn aside from the path, let us hear no more about the Holy One of Israel."

12Therefore thus says the Holy One of Israel, "Because you despise this word and trust in oppression and perverseness and rely on them,

13therefore this iniquity shall be to you like a breach in a high wall, bulging out and about to collapse, whose breaking comes suddenly, in an instant;

14and its breaking is like that of a potter's vessel that is smashed so ruthlessly that among its fragments not a shard is found with which to take fire from the hearth, or to dip up water out of the cistern."

15For thus said the Lord God, the Holy One of Israel, "In returning and rest you shall be saved; in quietness and in trust shall be your strength." But you were unwilling,

16and you said, "No! We will flee upon horses"; therefore you shall flee away; and, "We will ride upon swift steeds"; therefore your pursuers shall be swift.