If I go out into the field, then I see those pierced with the sword. And if I enter into the city, then, behold, diseases of famine! Yes, both the prophet and the priest have gone around into a land that they do not know.
For I heard the slanders of many, Terror is all around! Expose! Yea, let us expose him! Every man of my peace watched for my fall, saying, Perhaps he will be lured away, and we shall prevail against him; and we shall take revenge on him.
Then I said, Ah, Lord Jehovah! Surely deceiving You have deceived this people and Jerusalem, saying, You shall have peace, but the sword reaches to the soul.
Declare in Judah, and make it heard in Jerusalem, and say, Blow the rams’ horn in the land. Cry, and say, It will be ended. Gather yourselves and go into the fortified cities.
Why have I seen that they are afraid and turned backward? And their mighty ones are crushed, and have fled for refuge, and do not look back. Terror is all around, a statement of Jehovah.
They shall take their tents and their flocks. They shall take their curtains, and all their vessels, and they shall lift up their camels, to themselves. And they shall cry to them, Terror is round about!
Behold, I will bring a dread on you, a statement of the Lord Jehovah of Hosts, from all those who are around you. And you shall be driven out, each man before him. And there is none to gather up the runaways.
Why do we sit still? Gather yourselves, and let us enter into the fortified cities, and let us be silent there. For Jehovah our God has made us silent there, and He has made us drink water of poison because we have sinned against Jehovah.
You have called my terrors round about, as in a day of appointed meeting; and there was not a fugitive or a survivor in the day of the anger of Jehovah. Those whom I have nursed and multiplied, my enemy has consumed.