¹³ So, then, the message from the Lord to them will become:
    “Do this and do that,
        do this and do that,
    line upon line,
        line upon line,
    a little here,
        a little there,”
so that they will go,
    but fall backward,
        and be injured, snared, and captured.

¹⁴ “Therefore hear^[a] the message from the Lord, you scoffers
    who rule this people that are in Jerusalem.
¹⁵ Because you said:
    ‘We have entered into a covenant with death,
        and we have an agreement with Sheol,^[b]
    so when the overwhelming scourge makes its choice,^[c]
        it cannot reach us,
    since we have made lies our refuge
        and have concealed ourselves inside falsehood,’