4:16 They are saying,
‘Announce to the surrounding nations,
“The enemy is coming!”
Proclaim this message
“Those who besiege cities
They are ready to raise the battle cry against
4:17 They will surround Jerusalem
like men guarding a field
because they have rebelled against me,”
says the Lord.
4:30 And you, Zion, city doomed to destruction,
you accomplish nothing
decking yourself out in jewels of gold,
and putting on eye shadow!
You are making yourself beautiful for nothing.
Your lovers spurn you.
They want to kill you.
4:31 In fact,
a cry of anguish like that of a woman giving birth to her first baby.
It is the cry of Daughter Zion
reaching out for help,
My life is ebbing away before these murderers!”
13:5 They come from a distant land,
from the horizon.
It is the Lord with his instruments of judgment,
coming to destroy the whole earth.