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Now it is I who speak in judgment against them. <div class="poetry">13Look! He comes up like clouds,     his chariots like the whirlwind; his horses are swifter than eagles—     woe to us, for we are ruined! 14O Jerusalem, wash your heart clean of wickedness     so that you may be saved. How long shall your evil schemes     lodge within you? 15For a voice declares from Dan     and proclaims disaster from Mount Ephraim. 16Tell the nations, “Here they are!”     Proclaim against Jerusalem, “Besiegers come from a distant land;     they shout against the cities of Judah. 17They have closed in around her like watchers of a field,     because she has rebelled against me, says the Lord. 18Your ways and your doings     have brought this upon you. This is your doom; how bitter it is!     It has reached your very heart.”</div> <h3>Sorrow for a Doomed Nation</h3><div class="poetry">19My anguish, my anguish! I writhe in pain!     Oh, the walls of my heart! My heart is beating wildly;     I cannot keep silent; for Id</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote d">d</a>] hear the sound of the trumpet,     the alarm of war. 20Disaster overtakes disaster,     the whole land is laid waste. Suddenly my tents are destroyed,     my curtains in a moment. 21How long must I see the standard,     and hear the sound of the trumpet? 22“For my people are foolish,     they do not know me; they are stupid children,     they have no understanding. They are skilled in doing evil,     but do not know how to do good.”</div> <div class="poetry top-1">23I looked on the earth, and lo, it was waste and void;     and to the heavens, and they had no light. 24I looked on the mountains, and lo, they were quaking,     and all the hills moved to and fro. 25I looked, and lo, there was no one at all,     and all the birds of the air had fled. 26I looked, and lo, the fruitful land was a desert,     and all its cities were laid in ruins     before the Lord, before his fierce anger.</div> 27For thus says the Lord: The whole land shall be a desolation; yet I will not make a full end. <div class="poetry">28Because of this the earth shall mourn,     and the heavens above grow black; for I have spoken, I have purposed;     I have not relented nor will I turn back.</div> <div class="poetry top-1">29At the noise of horseman and archer     every town takes to flight; they enter thickets; they climb among rocks;     all the towns are forsaken,     and no one lives in them. 30And you, O desolate one, what do you mean that you dress in crimson,     that you deck yourself with ornaments of gold,     that you enlarge your eyes with paint? In vain you beautify yourself.     Your lovers despise you;     they seek your life. 31For I heard a cry as of a woman in labor,     anguish as of one bringing forth her first child, the cry of daughter Zion gasping for breath,     stretching out her hands, “Woe is me! I am fainting before killers!”</div> <A name="fen"></a><div class="footnotes"><h4>Footnotes</h4><ol><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Jeremiah 4:2">Jeremiah 4:2</a> Or shall bless themselves</li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Jeremiah 4:5">Jeremiah 4:5</a> Or shout, take your weapons: Heb shout, fill (your hand)</li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Jeremiah 4:11">Jeremiah 4:11</a> Or the trails</li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Jeremiah 4:19">Jeremiah 4:19</a> Another reading is for you, O my soul,</li></ol></div> </div></div></div></div></div> </div> </div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Scripture quotations are from the New Revised Standard Version Bible: Catholic Edition, copyright © 1989, 1993 National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. 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