For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, How are we ruined! we are greatly confounded, because we have forsaken the land, because they have cast down our dwellings.
Behold, he shall come up as clouds, and his chariots {\i shall be} as the whirlwind: his horses are swifter than eagles. Woe unto us! for we are ruined.
and thou shalt grope at noonday, as the blind gropeth in darkness, and thou shalt not prosper in thy ways: and thou shalt be only oppressed and robbed alway, and there shall be none to save thee.
In that day shall they take up a parable against you, and lament with a doleful lamentation, {\i and} say, We are utterly ruined: he changeth the portion of my people: how doth he remove {\i it} from me! to the rebellious he divideth our fields.
Depart ye, they cried unto them, Unclean! depart, depart, touch not!\par\tab When they fled away and wandered, men said among the nations,\par\tab They shall no more sojourn {\i here}.
Cut off thy hair, {\i O Jerusalem}, and cast it away, and take up a lamentation on the bare heights; for Jehovah hath rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath.
Then said Jehovah unto me, Though Moses and Samuel stood before me, yet my mind would not be toward this people: cast them out of my sight, and let them go forth.