⁷ Look, their brave men^(A) cry aloud in the streets;
    the envoys^(B) of peace weep bitterly.
⁸ The highways are deserted,
    no travelers^(C) are on the roads.^(D)
The treaty is broken,^(E)
    its witnesses^[a] are despised,
    no one is respected.

²⁸ They enter Aiath;
    they pass through Migron;^(A)
    they store supplies^(B) at Mikmash.^(C)
29 They go over the pass, and say,
    “We will camp overnight at Geba.^(D)”
Ramah^(E) trembles;
    Gibeah^(F) of Saul flees.^(G)
30 Cry out, Daughter Gallim!^(H)
    Listen, Laishah!
    Poor Anathoth!^(I)
31 Madmenah is in flight;
    the people of Gebim take cover.
³² This day they will halt at Nob;^(J)
    they will shake their fist^(K)
at the mount of Daughter Zion,^(L)
    at the hill of Jerusalem.

⁷ therefore the Lord is about to bring against them
    the mighty floodwaters^(A) of the Euphrates—
    the king of Assyria^(B) with all his pomp.^(C)
It will overflow all its channels,
    run over all its banks^(D)
8 and sweep on into Judah, swirling over it,^(E)
    passing through it and reaching up to the neck.
Its outspread wings^(F) will cover the breadth of your land,
    Immanuel^[a]!”^(G)

⁷ Your country is desolate,^(A)
    your cities burned with fire;^(B)
your fields are being stripped by foreigners^(C)
    right before you,
    laid waste as when overthrown by strangers.^(D)
8 Daughter Zion^(E) is left^(F)
    like a shelter in a vineyard,
like a hut^(G) in a cucumber field,
    like a city under siege.