1. Run for your lives,people of Benjamin.Get out of Jerusalem.Sound a trumpet in Tekoaand light a signal firein Beth-Haccherem.Soon you will be struckby disaster from the north.
2-3. Jerusalem is a lovely pasture,but shepherds will surround itand divide it up,then let their flockseat all the grass.
4. Kings will tell their troops,“If we reach Jerusalemin the morning,we'll attack at midday.But if we arrive later,
5. we'll attack after darkand destroy its fortresses.”
18-19. So I tell all nations on earth,“Watch what I will do!My people ignored meand rejected my laws.They planned to do evil,and now the evil they plannedwill happen to them.”
29-30. Silver can be purifiedin a fiery furnace,but my people are too wickedto be made pure,and so I have rejected them.