Into the Fire

Go now, write it on a tablet for them,

   inscribe it on a scroll,

that for days to come

   it may be an everlasting witness.

These are rebellious people, deceitful children,

   children unwilling to listen to the Lord's instruction.

They say to the seers,

   "See no more visions!"

and to the prophets,

   "Give us no more visions of what is right!

Tell us pleasant things,

   prophesy illusions.

Leave this way,

   get off this path,

 and stop confronting us

   with the Holy One of Israel!"  

Therefore, this is what the Holy One of Israel says:

 "Because you have rejected this message,

   relied on oppression

   and depended on deceit,

this sin will become for you

   like a high wall, cracked and bulging,

   that collapses suddenly, in an instant.

It will break in pieces like pottery,

   shattered so mercilessly

that among its pieces not a fragment will be found

  for taking coals from a hearth

  or scooping water out of a cistern." 

Isaiah 30:8-14 (NIV)