when it comes on you like a storm, bringing fierce winds of trouble, and you are in pain and misery.

If you get more stubborn every time you are corrected, one day you will be crushed and never recover.

You will put them in slippery places and make them fall to destruction!

They are like a dream that goes away in the morning; when you rouse yourself, O Lord, they disappear.

You are guilty. You are like a high wall with a crack running down it; suddenly you will collapse.

When people say, "Everything is quiet and safe," then suddenly destruction will hit them! It will come as suddenly as the pains that come upon a woman in labor, and people will not escape.

But they made fun of God's messengers, ignoring his words and laughing at his prophets, until at last the LORD's anger against his people was so great that there was no escape.

"Listen to this, you that ignore me, or I will destroy you, and there will be no one to save you.

and to tell them that the LORD Almighty had said, "I will break this people and this city, and it will be like this broken clay jar that cannot be put together again. People will bury their dead even in Topheth because there will be nowhere else to bury them.