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13     Your wrongdoing, your misplaced confidence and web of lies,
        will be your undoing.
    Like a breach in a wall that bulges out and suddenly gives way,
        your façade will come crashing down in an instant.
14     Your destruction will be as complete
        as when someone savagely smashes a piece of pottery.
    There won’t be even a single piece big enough
        to scoop an ember from the fire or skim a sip of water from a cistern.

15 Listen! The Lord, the Eternal, the Holy One of Israel says,

Eternal One: In returning and rest, you will be saved.
        In quietness and trust you will find strength.

God invites His people to lean only on Him. If they will just stop their busyness and self-reliance, God will be able to take care of them.

    But you refused.

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13 this sin will become for you
    like a high wall,(A) cracked and bulging,
    that collapses(B) suddenly,(C) in an instant.
14 It will break in pieces like pottery,(D)
    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.”

15 This is what the Sovereign(E) Lord, the Holy One(F) of Israel, says:

“In repentance and rest(G) is your salvation,
    in quietness and trust(H) is your strength,
    but you would have none of it.(I)

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