Jeremiah 4:18-21

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition

¹⁸ Your ways and your doings
    have brought this upon you.
This is your doom; how bitter it is!
    It has reached your very heart.”^(A)

¹⁹ My anguish, my anguish! I writhe in pain!
    Oh, the walls of my heart!
My heart is beating wildly;
    I cannot keep silent,
for I^[a] hear the sound of the trumpet,
    the alarm of war.^(B)
20 Disaster overtakes disaster;
    the whole land is laid waste.
Suddenly my tents are destroyed,
    my curtains in a moment.^(C)
21 How long must I see the standard
    and hear the sound of the trumpet?