Isaiah 66:4

Nevertheless, the people refused to listen to the voice of Samuel, and they said, “No, but there shall be a king over us,

I inquired of Yahweh, and He answered me, And delivered me from all that I dread.

“Because I called and you refused, I stretched out my hand and no one paid attention;

What the wicked dreads will come upon him, But the desire of the righteous will be granted.

“Why was there no man when I came? When I called, why was there none to answer? Is My hand so short that it cannot ransom? Or have I no power to deliver? Behold, I dry up the sea with My rebuke; I make the rivers a wilderness; Their fish stink for lack of water And die of thirst.

I will destine you for the sword, And all of you will bow down to the slaughter, Because I called, but you did not answer; I spoke, but you did not hear. And you did what was evil in My eyes And chose that in which I was not pleased.”

“And now, because you have done all these works,” declares Yahweh, “and I spoke to you, rising up early and speaking, but you did not hear, and I called you but you did not answer,

“Therefore thus says Yahweh, the God of hosts, the God of Israel, ‘Behold, I am bringing on Judah and on all the inhabitants of Jerusalem all the harmful evil that I have spoken against them because I spoke to them but they did not listen, and I have called them but they did not answer.’”

“You have feared a sword; so a sword I will bring upon you,” Lord Yahweh declares.

“Therefore speak to them and tell them, ‘Thus says Lord Yahweh, “Any man of the house of Israel who sets up his idols in his heart, puts right before his face the stumbling block of his iniquity, and then comes to the prophet, I Yahweh will be brought to give him an answer in light of it, in light of the multitude of his idols,

“And I also gave them statutes that were not good and judgments by which they could not live;