My stomach, my stomach! I am convulsed to my heart! My heart groans within me; I cannot be silent because you have heard, O my soul, the sound of the shofar, the alarm of war.

Destruction upon destruction is proclaimed; for the whole land is devastated. Suddenly my tents are destroyed, my curtains in a moment.

For I have heard a voice as of a woman in labor, the anguish as of one bearing her first child, the voice of the daughter of Zion, gasping and spreading her hands, saying, Woe to me now! For my soul is weary because of murderers.

O daughter of my people, put on sackcloth, and wallow in ashes; make mourning for yourself, as for an only son, most bitter wailing; for the destruction shall suddenly come upon us.

Yet hear the Word of Jehovah, O women, and let your ear receive the Word of His mouth, and teach your daughters a mourning song, and each one teach her neighbor a lamentation.

For death has come up into our windows, and has entered into our palaces, to cut off the children from outside and the young men from the streets.

Howl, you shepherds, and cry! Wallow in the ashes, you majestic ones of the flock! For the days of your slaughter and of your scattering are fulfilled; and you shall fall like a delightful vessel.

A voice of the cry of the shepherds, and a howling of the majestic ones of the flock shall be heard; for Jehovah has spoiled their pasture,

Thus says Jehovah: Behold, waters rise up out of the north, and shall be an overflowing flood, and shall overflow the land and all its fullness; the city and those who dwell in it. And the men shall cry, and all the inhabitants of the land shall howl.

At the noise of the stamping of the hooves of his strong horses, at the rushing of his chariots, the rumbling of his wheels, the fathers shall not look back for their children because of feebleness of hands;

A voice of crying shall be heard from Horonaim, plundering and great destruction.

For at the ascent to Luhith they go up with continual weeping; for at the descent from Horonaim the enemies have heard a cry of destruction.

Lift up your voice, O daughter of Gallim; cause it to be heard unto Laish; O poor Anathoth.

The burden against the Valley of Vision. What ails you now, that you have gone up to the housetops?

All your rulers have fled together; they have been captured without the bow; all who are found in you have been captured together; they have fled from afar.

And it shall be in that day, declares Jehovah, the sound of a cry from the Fish Gate, and a howling from the Second, and a loud crashing from the hills.

Howl, you inhabitants of Maktesh, for all the merchant people have perished; all those who carry silver are cut off.

a day of the shofar and alarm against the fortified cities, and against the high towers.

For I have heard the whisperings of many, terror is all around. Proclaim, they say, and we will report it. Everyone at peace with me is watching for me to stumble and fall, saying, Perhaps he will be lured away, and we shall prevail against him, and shall take our revenge on him.

And those who seek my life lay snares for me; and those who seek my hurt speak of destruction, and devise treachery all day long.

All day long they twist my words; all their thoughts are against me for evil.

Shall they escape by iniquity? In anger cast down the peoples, O God!

so that they may shoot at the perfect one from a hiding place; suddenly they shoot at him and do not fear.

They encourage themselves in an evil plan; they talk of laying snares secretly; they say, Who shall see them?

The proud have hidden a snare for me, and cords; they have spread a net by the wayside; they have laid the bait for me. Selah

Then the Pharisees went and plotted how they might entangle Him in His words.