5. Arise, and let us go by night,And let us destroy her palaces.”
6. For thus has the Lord of hosts said:“Cut down trees,And build a mound against Jerusalem.This is the city to be punished.She is full of oppression in her midst.
7. As a fountain wells up with water,So she wells up with her wickedness.Violence and plundering are heard in her.Before Me continually are grief and wounds.
8. Be instructed, O Jerusalem,Lest My soul depart from you;Lest I make you desolate,A land not inhabited.”
9. Thus says the Lord of hosts:“They shall thoroughly glean as a vine the remnant of Israel;As a grape-gatherer, put your hand back into the branches.”
10. To whom shall I speak and give warning,That they may hear?Indeed their ear is uncircumcised,And they cannot give heed.Behold, the word of the Lord is a reproach to them;They have no delight in it.
11. Therefore I am full of the fury of the Lord.I am weary of holding it in.“I will pour it out on the children outside,And on the assembly of young men together;For even the husband shall be taken with the wife,The aged with him who is full of days.