1“Flee for safety, you children of Benjamin, out…
2I will cut off the beautiful and delicate…
3Shepherds with their flocks will come to her.…
4“Prepare war against her! Arise! Let’s go up…
5Arise! Let’s go up by night, and let’s…
6For the LORD of Armies said, “Cut down…
7As a well produces its waters, so she…
8Be instructed, Jerusalem, lest my soul be alienated…
9The LORD of Armies says, “They will thoroughly…
10To whom should I speak and testify, that…
11Therefore I am full of the LORD’s wrath.…
12Their houses will be turned to others, their…
13“For from their least even to their greatest,…
14They have healed also the hurt of my…
15Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination?…
16The LORD says, “Stand in the ways and…
17I set watchmen over you, saying, ‘Listen to…
18Therefore hear, you nations, and know, congregation, what…
19Hear, earth! Behold, I will bring evil on…
20To what purpose does frankincense from Sheba come…
21Therefore the LORD says, “Behold, I will lay…
22The LORD says, “Behold, a people comes from…
23They take hold of bow and spear. They…
24We have heard its report. Our hands become…
25Don’t go out into the field or walk…
26Daughter of my people, clothe yourself with sackcloth,…
27“I have made you a tester of metals…
28They are all grievous rebels, going around to…
29The bellows blow fiercely. The lead is consumed…
30Men will call them rejected silver, because the…
