My enemies without cause Hunted me down like a bird.

"After whom has the king of Israel come out? Whom do you pursue? A dead dog? A flea?

Then the city wall was broken through, and all the men of war [fled] at night by way of the gate between two walls, which was by the king's garden, even though the Chaldeans [were] still encamped all around against the city. And [the king] went by way of the plain.

But the army of the Chaldeans pursued the king, and they overtook him in the plains of Jericho. All his army was scattered from him.

If [my head] is exalted, You hunt me like a fierce lion, And again You show Yourself awesome against me.

Let not a slanderer be established in the earth; Let evil hunt the violent man to overthrow [him."]

" Behold, I will send for many fishermen," says the LORD, "and they shall fish them; and afterward I will send for many hunters, and they shall hunt them from every mountain and every hill, and out of the holes of the rocks.

So it was, when Zedekiah the king of Judah and all the men of war saw them, that they fled and went out of the city by night, by way of the king's garden, by the gate between the two walls. And he went out by way of the plain.

But the Chaldean army pursued them and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho. And when they had captured him, they brought him up to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, to Riblah in the land of Hamath, where he pronounced judgment on him.

Then the city wall was broken through, and all the men of war fled and went out of the city at night by way of the gate between the two walls, which [was] by the king's garden, even though the Chaldeans [were] near the city all around. And they went by way of the plain.

So they took the king and brought him up to the king of Babylon at Riblah in the land of Hamath, and he pronounced judgment on him.

Then the LORD said to me, "You have seen well, for I am ready to perform My word."

For thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: "The daughter of Babylon [is] like a threshing floor [When it is] time to thresh her; Yet a little while And the time of her harvest will come."

"And you, son of man, thus says the Lord GOD to the land of Israel: 'An end! The end has come upon the four corners of the land.

My eye will not spare you, Nor will I have pity; But I will repay your ways, And your abominations will be in your midst; Then you shall know that I [am] the LORD!'

An end has come, The end has come; It has dawned for you; Behold, it has come!

Now upon you I will soon pour out My fury, And spend My anger upon you; I will judge you according to your ways, And I will repay you for all your abominations.

' Behold, the day! Behold, it has come! Doom has gone out; The rod has blossomed, Pride has budded.

The time has come, The day draws near. 'Let not the buyer rejoice, Nor the seller mourn, For wrath [is] on their whole multitude.

"Son of man, what [is] this proverb [that] you [people] have about the land of Israel, which says, 'The days are prolonged, and every vision fails'?

"Tell them therefore, 'Thus says the Lord GOD: "I will lay this proverb to rest, and they shall no more use it as a proverb in Israel." But say to them, "The days are at hand, and the fulfillment of every vision.

"Son of man, look, the house of Israel is saying, 'The vision that he sees [is] for many days [from now,] and he prophesies of times far off.'

And He said, "Amos, what do you see?" So I said, "A basket of summer fruit." Then the LORD said to me: "The end has come upon My people Israel; I will not pass by them anymore.