¹¹At that time the people of Judah and Jerusalem will be warned. They will be told, “A hot and dry wind is coming, my people. It is blowing toward you from the bare hilltops in the desert. But it does not separate straw from grain. ¹²It is much too strong for that. The wind is coming from me. I am making my decision against you.”

¹³Look! Our enemies are approaching like the clouds.

Their chariots are coming like a strong wind.

Their horses are faster than eagles.

How terrible it will be for us!

We’ll be destroyed!

¹⁴People of Jerusalem, wash your sins from your hearts and be saved.

How long will you hold on to your evil thoughts?

¹⁵A voice is speaking all the way from the city of Dan.

From the hills of Ephraim it announces

that trouble is coming.

¹⁶“Tell the nations.

Warn Jerusalem.

Say, ‘An army will attack you.

It is coming from a land far away.

It will shout a war cry

against the cities of Judah.

¹⁷It will surround them like people who guard a field.

Judah has refused to obey me,’ ”

announces the Lord.

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