5. Arise, and let us attack by nightand destroy her palaces!”
6. For thus says the Lord of hosts: “Cut down her trees; cast up a siege mound against Jerusalem.This is the city that must be punished;there is nothing but oppression within her.
7. As a well keeps its water fresh,so she keeps fresh her evil; violence and destruction are heard within her;sickness and wounds are ever before me.
8. Be warned, O Jerusalem, lest I turn from you in disgust,lest I make you a desolation,an uninhabited land.”
9. Thus says the Lord of hosts: “They shall glean thoroughly as a vinethe remnant of Israel;like a grape gatherer pass your hand againover its branches.”
10. To whom shall I speak and give warning,that they may hear? Behold, their ears are uncircumcised, they cannot listen;behold, the word of the Lord is to them an object of scorn;they take no pleasure in it.
11. Therefore I am full of the wrath of the Lord; I am weary of holding it in. “Pour it out upon the children in the street,and upon the gatherings of young men, also; both husband and wife shall be taken,the elderly and the very aged.
12. Their houses shall be turned over to others,their fields and wives together,for I will stretch out my handagainst the inhabitants of the land,”declares the Lord.