14. O Jerusalem, wash your heart from wickedness,That you may be saved.How long shall your evil thoughts lodge within you?
15. For a voice declares from DanAnd proclaims affliction from Mount Ephraim:
16. “Make mention to the nations,Yes, proclaim against Jerusalem,That watchers come from a far countryAnd raise their voice against the cities of Judah.
17. Like keepers of a field they are against her all around,Because she has been rebellious against Me,” says the Lord.
18. “Your ways and your doingsHave procured these things for you.This is your wickedness,Because it is bitter,Because it reaches to your heart.”
19. O my soul, my soul!I am pained in my very heart!My heart makes a noise in me;I cannot hold my peace,Because you have heard, O my soul,The sound of the trumpet,The alarm of war.
20. Destruction upon destruction is cried,For the whole land is plundered.Suddenly my tents are plundered,And my curtains in a moment.
21. How long will I see the standard,And hear the sound of the trumpet?