when what you dread comes like a whirlwind, and disaster strikes you like a devastating storm, when distressing trouble comes on you.

When one looks out over the land, he sees distress and darkness, gloom and anxiety, darkness and people forced from the land.

This is a message about the animals in the Negev: Through a land of distress and danger, inhabited by lionesses and roaring lions, by snakes and darting adders, they transport their wealth on the backs of donkeys, their riches on the humps of camels, to a nation that cannot help them.

So know and understand: From the issuing of the command to restore and rebuild Jerusalem until an anointed one, a prince arrives, there will be a period of seven weeks and sixty-two weeks. It will again be built, with plaza and moat, but in distressful times.