5. “Arise, and let us go by nightand let us destroy her palaces.”
6. For thus says the Lord of Hosts: Hew down treesand build a mound against Jerusalem.This is the city to be punished.She is full of oppression in her midst.
7. As a fountain casts out her waters,so she casts out her wickedness.Violence and devastation are heard in her;before Me continually are grief and wounds.
8. Be instructed, O Jerusalem,lest My soul depart from you;lest I make you desolate,a land not inhabited.
9. Thus says the Lord of Hosts: They will thoroughly gleanthe remnant of Israel as a vine.Turn back your handas a grape gatherer into the baskets.