30:12 For this reason this is what the Holy One of Israel says:
“You have rejected this message; 1
you trust instead in your ability to oppress and trick, 2
and rely on that kind of behavior. 3
30:13 So this sin will become your downfall.
You will be like a high wall
that bulges and cracks and is ready to collapse;
it crumbles suddenly, in a flash. 4
30:14 It shatters in pieces like a clay jar,
so shattered to bits that none of it can be salvaged. 5
Among its fragments one cannot find a shard large enough 6
to scoop a hot coal from a fire 7
or to skim off water from a cistern.” 8