4:1 If thou wilt return, O Israel, saith Jehovah, return unto me; and if thou wilt put away thine abominations out of my sight, then shalt thou not be a wanderer;
4:4 Circumcise yourselves for Jehovah, and take away the foreskins of your heart, ye men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem; lest my fury come forth like fire and burn, and there be none to quench it, because of the evil of your doings.
4:5 Declare ye in Judah, and cause it to be heard in Jerusalem, and say, ... and blow the trumpet in the land, cry aloud and say, Assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the fenced cities.
4:6 Set up a banner toward Zion; take to flight, stay not! For I am bringing evil from the north, and a great destruction.
4:7 The lion is come up from his thicket, the destroyer of the nations is on his way; he is gone forth from his place, to make thy landdesolate; thy cities shall be laid waste, without inhabitant.
4:11 At that time shall it be said to this people and to Jerusalem, A hotwind [cometh] from the heights in the wilderness, on the way of the daughter of my people, not for fanning, nor for cleansing.
4:12 A wind more vehement than that shall come from me: now will I also pronounce judgments against them.
4:13 Behold, he cometh up as clouds, and his chariots are as a whirlwind; his horses are swifter than eagles. Woe unto us! for we are destroyed.
4:20 Destruction upon destruction is proclaimed; for the whole land is wasted: suddenly are my tents laid waste, my curtains, in a moment.
4:21 How long shall I see the standard, [and] hear the sound of the trumpet?
4:22 For my people is foolish, they have not known me; they are sottish children, and they have no intelligence; they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.
4:23 I beheld the earth, and lo, it was waste and empty; and the heavens, and they had no light.
4:24 I beheld the mountains, and lo, they trembled, and all the hills shook violently.
4:25 I beheld, and lo, man was not, and all the fowl of the heavens were fled.
4:27 For thus saith Jehovah: The whole land shall be a desolation; but I will not make a full end.
4:28 For this shall the earthmourn, and the heavens above be black; because I have spoken it, I have purposed it, and will not repent, neither will I turn back therefrom.
4:29 At the noise of the horsemen and bowmen, every city fleeth; they go into the thickets, and climb up upon the rocks: every city is forsaken and no man dwelleth therein.
4:30 -- And thou, wasted one, what wilt thou do? Though thou clothest thyself with crimson, though thou deckest thee with ornaments of gold, though thou rendest thine eyes with paint, in vain dost thou make thyself fair: [thy] loversdespise thee, they see
4:31 For I hear a voice, as of a woman in travail, anguish as of her that bringeth forth her first child, the voice of the daughter of Zion: she moaneth, she spreadeth forth her hands, [saying], Woe unto me! for my soul faileth because of murderers.
