Arise!
Let’s go up by night, and let’s destroy her palaces.”
For the LORD of Armies said, “Cut down trees, and cast up a mound against Jerusalem.
This is the city to be visited.
She is filled with oppression within herself.
As a well produces its waters, so she produces her wickedness.
Violence and destruction is heard in her.
Sickness and wounds are continually before me.
Be instructed, Jerusalem, lest my soul be alienated from you, lest I make you a desolation, an uninhabited land.”