13. Look, the enemy is coming like clouds. Their war chariots are like a whirlwind, and their horses are faster than eagles. We are lost! We are doomed!
14. Jerusalem, wash the evil from your heart, so that you may be saved. How long will you go on thinking sinful thoughts?
15. Messengers from the city of Dan and from the hills of Ephraim announce the bad news.
16. They have come to warn the nations and to tell Jerusalem that enemies are coming from a country far away. These enemies will shout against the cities of Judah
17. and will surround Jerusalem like men guarding a field, because her people have rebelled against the Lord. The Lord has spoken.
18. Judah, you have brought this on yourself by the way you have lived and by the things you have done. Your sin has caused this suffering; it has stabbed you through the heart.
19. The pain! I can't bear the pain!My heart! My heart is beating wildly!I can't keep quiet;I hear the trumpetsand the shouts of battle.
20. One disaster follows another;the whole country is left in ruins.Suddenly our tents are destroyed;their curtains are torn to pieces.