5Declare in Judah and in Jerusalem; cause it to be heard and say, Blow the trumpet in the land; call aloud and say, Assemble yourselves and let us come to the fortified cities.6Raise a banner toward Zion; seek refuge; do not stand still, for I am bringing distress from the north and a great breaking.7A lion has come up from his thicket, and a destroyer of nations has set out; he has gone out from his place to make your land a horror; your cities will be desolate without an inhabitant.8Because of this, gird on sackcloth; mourn and wail, for the burning anger of the LORD has not turned back from us.9On that day, declares the LORD, the heart of the king and the heart of the princes will perish, and the priests and the prophets will be appalled.10Then I said, Alas, Lord GOD, you have surely deceived this people and Jerusalem by saying, Peace will be to you, yet the sword has reached the soul.11At that time it will be said to this people and to Jerusalem: A dazzling wind of bareness in the wilderness is the way of the daughter of my people, not for winnowing and not for cleansing.12A full wind from these will come to me; now I also will speak judgments against them.13Behold, he comes up like clouds, and his chariots are like a whirlwind; his horses are swifter than eagles. Woe to us, for we are ruined.14Wash your heart from distress, Jerusalem, that you may be saved. How long will your evil schemes lodge within you?15For a voice declares from Dan and proclaims evil from the hill country of Ephraim.16Proclaim to the nations; behold, cause it to be heard in Jerusalem: Watchmen are coming from a distant land and raise their voice against the cities of Judah.17Like keepers of a field they have surrounded her, for she has rebelled against me, declares the LORD.18Your way and your deeds have done these things to you; this is your distress, for it is bitter, because it has reached your heart.19My belly, my belly! I writhe; I wait; the walls of my heart roar within me; my heart is not silent, for I have heard the sound of the trumpet; my soul has heard the alarm of war.20Breaking upon breaking is proclaimed, for the whole land is devastated; suddenly my tents are devastated, my curtains in a moment.21How long must I see the banner and hear the sound of the trumpet?22For my people are foolish; they do not know me; they are senseless children and have no understanding; they are wise to do evil, but they do not know to do good.23I looked at the land, and behold, it was formlessness and void; and at the heavens, and they had no light.24I looked at the mountains, and behold, they were quaking, and all the hills were swaying.25I looked, and behold, there was no man, and all the birds of the heavens had fled.26I looked, and behold, the plantation was a wilderness, and all its cities were broken down before the LORD, before his burning anger.27For thus says the LORD: The whole land shall become a desolation, yet I will not make a full end.28Because of this the land mourns, and the heavens above grow dark, for I have spoken, I have purposed, and I have not relented, nor will I turn back from it.29At the sound of the horseman and the archer every city flees; they enter the clouds and climb among the rocks; every city is forsaken, and no man dwells in them.30And you, when you are devastated, what will you do? Though you clothe yourself in scarlet, though you adorn yourself with gold ornament, though you enlarge your eyes with paint, you beautify yourself in vain; your lovers despise you; they seek your soul.31For I have heard a voice like a woman in labor, distress like one bringing forth her first child, the voice of the daughter of Zion gasping, spreading out her hands: Woe is me, for my soul faints before the killers.