Jeremiah 4:13-17

New International Reader's Version

¹³ Look! Our enemies are approaching like the clouds.
    Their chariots are coming like a strong wind.
Their horses are faster than eagles.
    How terrible it will be for us!
    We’ll be destroyed!
¹⁴ People of Jerusalem, wash your sins from your hearts and be saved.
    How long will you hold on to your evil thoughts?
¹⁵ A voice is speaking all the way from the city of Dan.
    From the hills of Ephraim it announces
    that trouble is coming.
¹⁶ “Tell the nations.
    Make an announcement concerning Jerusalem.
Say, ‘An army will attack Judah.
    It is coming from a land far away.
It will shout a war cry
    against the cities of Judah.
¹⁷ It will surround them like people who guard a field.
    Judah has refused to obey me,’ ”
    announces the Lord.