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12 Therefore, thus says the Holy One of Israel:

Because you have rejected this warning,
    placing your trust in fraud and deceit
    and relying on them,
13 this guilt of yours will become for you
    like a crack appearing in a high wall
that bulges out and continues to widen
    until suddenly, in an instant,
    that wall will come hurtling to the ground.
14 It will crash and break like an earthenware pot,
    shattered so completely
that among its fragments not a single shard can be found
    to remove an ember from the hearth
    or to scoop out water from a cistern.

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