4. Circumcise yourselves to Yahweh, and remove the foreskins of your hearts, men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem, lest my wrath goes forth like the fire and burns, and there is no one who extinguishes it, because of the evil of your deeds.”
5. Declare in Judah and proclaim in Jerusalem and say, “Blow a horn through the land, call with a loud voice and say, ‘Be gathered and let us go into the fortified cities.’
6. Lift up a signal toward Zion, bring yourselves to safety; you must not remain standing, for I am bringing evil from the north, and a great destruction.
7. A lion has gone up from his thicket, and a destroyer of nations has set out. He has gone out from his place to make your land as a horror, your cities will go to ruin without inhabitant.
8. Because of this gird yourselves with sackcloth, lament and wail, for the burning anger of Yahweh has not turned back from us.