<p class="poetry">As a well continually pours out fresh waterp> <p class="poetry">so it continually pours out wicked deeds.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">Sounds of violence and destruction echo throughout it.<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">All I see are sick and wounded people.&#8217;<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">For whenever I prophesy,<n id="1" /> I must cry out,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;Violence and destruction are coming!&#8221;<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">This message from the <sc>Lordsc><n id="4" /> has made mep> <p class="poetry">an object of continual insults and derision.p>

<p class="poetry">The person who lives in Zion says,p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;May Babylon pay for the violence done to me and to my relatives.&#8221;p> <p class="poetry">Jerusalem says,p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;May those living in Babylonia pay for the bloodshed of my people.&#8221;<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">Do not lose your courage or become afraidp> <p class="poetry">because of the reports that are heard in the land.p> <p class="poetry">For a report will come in one year.p> <p class="poetry">Another report will follow it in the next.p> <p class="poetry">There will be violence in the landp> <p class="poetry">with ruler fighting against ruler.&#8221;p>