1Israel, if you will come back, if you will come back to me, says the LORD, if you will banish your loathsome idols from my sight, and go astray no more,
2if you swear “by the life of the LORD” in truth, justice, and uprightness, then the nations will pray to be blessed like you and in you they will boast.
3These are the words of the LORD to the people of Judah and Jerusalem: Break up your ground that lies unploughed, do not sow among thorns;
4circumcise yourselves to the service of the LORD, circumcise your hearts, you people of Judah, you dwellers in Jerusalem, or the fire of my fury may blaze up and burn unquenched, because of your evil actions.
5Declare this in Judah, proclaim it in Jerusalem. Blow the trumpet throughout the land. Shout aloud the command: “Assemble! Let us move back to the fortified towns.”
6Raise the signal -- to Zion! Make for safety without delay, for I am about to bring disaster out of the north and dire destruction.
7A lion has risen from his lair, the destroyer of nations; he has broken camp and marched out to devastate your land and make your cities waste and empty.
8Therefore put on sackcloth, beat the breast and wail, for the fierce anger of the LORD is not averted from us.
9On that day, says the LORD, the courage of the king and his officers will fail, priests will be aghast and prophets appalled.
10I said: Ah, Lord GOD, you surely deceived this people and Jerusalem in promising peace while the sword is at our throats.
11At that time this people and Jerusalem will be told: A scorching wind from the desert heights sweeps down on my people; it is no breeze for winnowing or for cleansing.
12A wind too strong for these will come at my bidding, and now I shall state my case against my people.
13Like clouds the enemy advances, like a whirlwind with his chariots; his horses are swifter than eagles: “Woe to us, for we are lost!”
14Jerusalem, cleanse the wrongdoing from your heart and you may yet be saved. How long will you harbour within you your evil schemes?
15News comes from Dan, evil tidings from Mount Ephraim.
16Tell this to the nations, proclaim the doom of Jerusalem: hordes of invaders are on the way from a distant land, giving voice against the cities of Judah.
17As a field surrounded by guards she is encircled by them, because she has rebelled against me. This is the word of the LORD.
18Your own ways and deeds have brought these things on you; this is your punishment, for your rebellion is seated deep within you.
19Oh, how I writhe in anguish, how my heart throbs! I cannot keep silence, for I hear the sound of the trumpet, the clamour of the battle cry.
20Crash follows crash, for the whole land goes down in ruin. Suddenly my tents are thrown down, the curtains in an instant.
21How long must I see the standard raised and hear the trumpet-call?
22My people are foolish, they know nothing of me; senseless children, lacking all understanding, clever only in wrongdoing, but of doing right they know nothing.
23I looked at the earth, and it was chaos, at the heavens, and their light was gone,
24at the mountains, and they were reeling, and all the hills rocked to and fro.
25I looked: no one was there, and all the birds of heaven had taken wing.
26I looked: the fertile land was wilderness, its towns all razed to the ground before the LORD, before his fierce anger.
27These are the words of the LORD: The whole land will be desolate, and I shall make an end of it.
28The earth will be in mourning for this and the heavens above turn black; for I have made known my purpose, and I shall not relent or change it.
29At the sound of the horsemen and archers every town is in flight; people crawl into the thickets, scramble up among the crags. Every town is deserted, no one lives there.
30And you, what are you doing? When you dress yourself in scarlet, deck yourself out with gold ornaments, and enlarge your eyes with antimony, you are beautifying yourself to no purpose. Your lovers spurn you and seek your life.
31I hear a sound as of a woman in labour, the sharp cry of one bearing her first child. It is Zion, gasping for breath, stretching out her hands. “Ah me!” she cries. “I am weary, weary of slaughter.”
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