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.
9. And then on that day,” declares Yahweh, “the heart of the king and the heart of the officials will be destroyed, and the priests will be appalled, and the prophets will be astonished.”
10. Then I said, “Ah, Lord Yahweh, surely you have utterly deceived this people and Jerusalem, saying, ‘It will be peace for you,’ while the sword reaches up to the throat.”
11. At that time it will be said to this people and to Jerusalem, “A hot wind from the barren heights in the desert, in the direction of the daughter of my people, not to winnow and not to cleanse,
12. a wind too strong for these will come for me, now also I speak judgments against them.”