Jeremiah 4:7-9

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition

⁷ A lion has gone up from its thicket,
    a destroyer of nations has set out;
    he has gone out from his place
to make your land a waste;
    your cities will be ruins
    without inhabitant.
⁸ Because of this put on sackcloth,
    lament and wail:
‘The fierce anger of the Lord
    has not turned away from us.’