¹³Look, the enemy is coming like clouds. Their war chariots are like a whirlwind, and their horses are faster than eagles. We are lost! We are doomed!

¹⁴Jerusalem, wash the evil from your heart, so that you may be saved. How long will you go on thinking sinful thoughts?

¹⁵Messengers from the city of Dan and from the hills of Ephraim announce the bad news. ¹⁶They have come to warn the nations and to tell Jerusalem that enemies are coming from a country far away. These enemies will shout against the cities of Judah ¹⁷and will surround Jerusalem like men guarding a field, because her people have rebelled against the Lord. The Lord has spoken.

¹⁸Judah, you have brought this on yourself by the way you have lived and by the things you have done. Your sin has caused this suffering; it has stabbed you through the heart.

Jeremiah’s Sorrow for His People

¹⁹The pain! I can’t bear the pain!

My heart! My heart is beating wildly!

I can’t keep quiet;

I hear the trumpets

and the shouts of battle.

²⁰One disaster follows another;

the whole country is left in ruins.

Suddenly our tents are destroyed;

their curtains are torn to pieces.

²¹How long must I see the battle raging

and hear the blasts of trumpets?

²²The Lord says, “My people are stupid;

they don’t know me.

They are like foolish children;

they have no understanding.

They are experts at doing what is evil,

but failures at doing what is good.”

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