For thus saith the Lord: Although I shall send in upon Jerusalem my four grievous judgments, the sword and the famine and the mischievous beasts and the pestilence, to destroy out of it man and beast,
Let them be confounded that persecute me, and let not me be confounded: let them be afraid and let not me be afraid, bring upon them the day of affliction and with a double destruction destroy them.
Look upon Sion, the city of our solemnity: thy eyes shall see Jerusalem, a rich habitation, a tabernacle that cannot be removed. Neither shall the nails thereof be taken away for ever: neither shall any of the cords thereof be broken.
And the Lord said to Moses: Say to the children of Israel: Thou are a stiffnecked people; once I shall come up in the midst of thee, and shall destroy thee. Now presently lay aside thy ornaments, that I may know what to do with thee.
These two things shall come upon thee suddenly in one day: barrenness and widowhood. All things are come upon thee because of the multitude of thy sorceries and for the great hardness of thy enchanters.
My heart shall cry to Moab, the bars thereof shall flee unto Segor, a heifer of three years old. For by the ascent of Luith they shall go up weeping: and in the way of Oronaim they shall lift up a cry of destruction.
They have laid it waste, and it hath mourned for me. With desolation is all the land made desolate, because there is none that considereth in the heart.