<p class="poetry">&#8220;How long must I see the enemy&#8217;s battle flagsp> <p class="poetry">and hear the military signals of their bugles?&#8221;<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">&#8220;Oh people of Jerusalem, purify your hearts from evil<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">so that you may yet be delivered.p> <p class="poetry">How long will you continue to harbor upp> <p class="poetry">wicked schemes within you?p>

Those prophets are just prophesying lies. They are prophesying the delusions of their own minds.<n id="1" />

<p class="poetry">The people of Gaza will shave their heads in mourning.p> <p class="poetry">The people of Ashkelon will be struck dumb.p> <p class="poetry">How long will you gash yourselves to show your sorrow,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">you who remain of Philistia&#8217;s power?<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">People of Jerusalem,<n id="1" /> I have seen your adulterous worship,p> <p class="poetry">your shameless prostitution to, and your lustful pursuit of, other gods.<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">I have seen your disgusting acts of worship<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">on the hills throughout the countryside.p> <p class="poetry">You are doomed to destruction!<n id="4" />p> <p class="poetry">How long will you continue to be unclean?&#8217;&#8221;p>

<p class="poetry">How long will you vacillate,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">you who were once like an unfaithful daughter?<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">For I, the <sc>Lordsc>, promise<n id="3" /> to bring about something new<n id="4" /> on the earth,p> <p class="poetry">something as unique as a woman protecting a man!&#8217;&#8221;<n id="5" />p>

<p class="poetry">How long must the land be parched<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">and the grass in every field be withered?p> <p class="poetry">How long<n id="2" /> must the animals and the birds diep> <p class="poetry">because of the wickedness of the people who live in this land?<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">For these people boast,p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;God<n id="4" /> will not see what happens to us.&#8221;<n id="5" />p>

Some who survive in battle will return to the land of Judah from the land of Egypt. But they will be very few indeed!<n id="1" /> Then the Judean remnant who have come to live in the land of Egypt will know whose word proves true,<n id="2" /> mine or theirs.&#8217;