For the sound of wailing is heard from Zion: ‘How devastated we are! How great is our shame! For we have abandoned the land because our dwellings have been torn down.’”
Behold, he advances like the clouds, his chariots like the whirlwind. His horses are swifter than eagles. Woe to us, for
The survivors will escape and live in the mountains, moaning like doves of the valley, each for his own iniquity.
and at noon you will grope about like a blind man in the darkness. You will not prosper in your ways. Day after day you
And you, O devastated one, what will you do, though you dress yourself in scarlet, though you adorn yourself with gold j
So if you defile the land, it will vomit you out as it spewed out the nations before you.
Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, our houses to foreigners.
Disaster after disaster is proclaimed, for the whole land is laid waste. My tents are destroyed in an instant, my curtai
You are therefore to keep all My statutes and ordinances, so that the land where I am bringing you to live will not vomi
Is Israel a slave? Was he born into slavery? Why then has he become prey?
Even the land has become defiled, so I am punishing it for its sin, and the land will vomit out its inhabitants.
Because of this I will lament and wail; I will walk barefoot and naked. I will howl like a jackal and mourn like an ostr
In that day they will take up a proverb against you and taunt you with this bitter lamentation: ‘We are utterly ruined!
Arise and depart, for this is not your place of rest, because its defilement brings destruction—a grievous destruction!
“Go away! Unclean!” men shouted at them. “Away, away! Do not touch us!” So they fled and wandered. Among the nations it