4. Circumcise yourselves to the LORD, and take away the foreskins of your heart, you men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem: lest my fury come forth like fire, and burn that none can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.
5. Declare you in Judah, and publish in Jerusalem; and say, Blow you the trumpet in the land: cry, Gather together, and say, Assemble yourselves, and let us go into the fortified cities.
6. Set up the standard toward Zion: take refuge, delay not: for I will bring evil from the north, and a great destruction.
7. The lion has come up from his thicket, and the destroyer of the nations is on his way; he has gone forth from his place to make your land desolate; and your cities shall be laid waste, without an inhabitant.
8. For this gird yourselves with sackcloth, lament and wail: for the fierce anger of the LORD has not turned back from us.
9. And it shall come to pass at that day,