¹⁰Because, yes, because they led my people astray, saying^p ‘Peace!’ And there is not peace. And when anyone^q builds a flimsy wall, look, they coat it with whitewash. ¹¹Say to those covering it with whitewash that it will fall; there will be a torrent of rain,^r and I will give stones of hail; they will fall! ^s And a windstorm^t will burst forth! ¹²And look! When the wall falls, will it not be said to you, ‘Where is the whitewash with which you covered it?’ ¹³Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: ‘And so I will let burst forth a windstorm^u in my rage, and there will be a torrent of rain^v in my anger, and hailstones in my rage for complete destruction.^w ¹⁴And I will break down the wall that you covered with whitewash, and I will knock it to the ground, and its foundation will be revealed, and it will fall, and you will come to an end in the midst of it, and you will know that I am Yahweh! ¹⁵And I will fully vent my rage against the wall and against those covering it with whitewash, and I will say to you, “The wall is no more,^x and the people covering it are no more,^y

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Footnotes

pLiterally “to say”
qHebrew “he”
rLiterally “rain flooding”
sOr “and I will give great hailstones. They will fall”
tLiterally “wind of a storm”; or “with respect/concerning you stones of hail, they will fall”
uLiterally “a wind of storm”
vLiterally “rain flooding there will be”
wLiterally “to complete destruction”
xLiterally “not is the wall”
yLiterally “not are the people whitewashing him”