Disaster from the North

Declare in Judah, and proclaim in Jerusalem, and say,

(A)“Blow the trumpet through the land;
    cry aloud and say,
(B)‘Assemble, and let us go
    into the fortified cities!’

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14 Why do we sit still?
(A)Gather together; (B)let us go into the fortified cities
    and perish there,
for the Lord our God has doomed us to perish
    and has (C)given us (D)poisoned water to drink,
    because we have sinned against the Lord.

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Impending Disaster for Jerusalem

Flee for safety, (A)O people of Benjamin,
    from the midst of Jerusalem!
Blow the trumpet in (B)Tekoa,
    and raise a signal on (C)Beth-haccherem,
for disaster looms (D)out of the north,
    and great destruction.

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20 When Joshua and the sons of Israel had finished striking them with a great blow (A)until they were wiped out, and when the remnant that remained of them had entered into the fortified cities,

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Israel Will Reap the Whirlwind

Set (A)the trumpet to your lips!
    One (B)like a vulture is over the house of the Lord,
because (C)they have transgressed my covenant
    and rebelled against my law.

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The lion has roared;
    who will not fear?
(A)The Lord God has spoken;
    who can but prophesy?”

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(A)Is a trumpet blown in a city,
    and the people are not afraid?
(B)Does disaster come to a city,
    unless the Lord has done it?

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(A)“Son of man, speak to (B)your people and say to them, If (C)I bring the sword upon a land, and the people of the land take a man from among them, and make him their (D)watchman, and if he sees the sword coming upon the land and (E)blows the trumpet and warns the people, then if anyone who hears the sound of the trumpet does not take warning, and the sword comes and takes him away, (F)his blood shall be upon his own head. (G)He heard the sound of the trumpet and did not take warning; his blood shall be upon himself. But if he had taken warning, he would have saved his life. (H)But if the watchman sees the sword coming and does not blow the trumpet, so that the people are not warned, and the sword comes and takes any one of them, (I)that person is taken away in his iniquity, but his blood I will require at the watchman's hand.

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11 But (A)when Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up against the land, we said, ‘Come, and let us go to Jerusalem for fear of (B)the army of the Chaldeans and (C)the army of the Syrians.’ (D)So we are living in Jerusalem.”

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(A)“Hear the words of this covenant, and speak to the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

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12 (A)Who is the man so wise that he can understand this? To whom has the mouth of the Lord spoken, that he may declare it? Why is the land ruined (B)and laid waste like a wilderness, so that no one passes through?

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20 Declare this in the house of Jacob;
    proclaim it in Judah:

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