rsv Jeremiah:6:1-8
rsv@Jeremiah:6:1 @ Flee for safety, O people of Benjamin, from the midst of Jerusalem! Blow the trumpet in Teko'a, and raise a signal on Beth-hacche'rem; for evil looms out of the north, and great destruction.
rsv@Jeremiah:6:2 @ The comely and delicately bred I will destroy, the daughter of Zion.
rsv@Jeremiah:6:3 @ Shepherds with their flocks shall come against her; they shall pitch their tents around her, they shall pasture, each in his place.
rsv@Jeremiah:6:4 @ "Prepare war against her; up, and let us attack at noon!" "Woe to us, for the day declines, for the shadows of evening lengthen!"
rsv@Jeremiah:6:5 @ "Up, and let us attack by night, and destroy her palaces!"
rsv@Jeremiah:6:6 @ For thus says the LORD of hosts: "Hew down her trees; cast up a siege mound against Jerusalem. This is the city which must be punished; there is nothing but oppression within her.
rsv@Jeremiah:6:7 @ As a well keeps its water fresh, so she keeps fresh her wickedness; violence and destruction are heard within her; sickness and wounds are ever before me.
rsv@Jeremiah:6:8 @ Be warned, O Jerusalem, lest I be alienated from you; lest I make you a desolation, an uninhabited land."