Armiya 4
If you will return, Israel, says Allah, if you will return to me, and if you will put away your abominations out of my sight; then you shall not be removed; 2and you shall swear, As Allah lives, in truth, in justice, and in righteousness; and the nations shall bless themselves in him, and in him shall they glory. 3For thus says Allah to the men of Judah and to Jerusalem, Break up your fallow ground, and do not sow among thorns. 4Circumcise yourselves to Allah, and take away the foreskins of your heart, you men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem; lest my wrath go forth like fire, and burn so that none can quench it, because of the evil of your doings. 5Declare in Judah, and publish in Jerusalem; and say, Blow the trumpet in the land: cry aloud and say, Assemble yourselves, and let us go into the fortified cities. 6Set up a standard toward Al-Quds: flee for safety, do not stay; for I will bring evil from the north, and a great destruction. 7A lion is gone up from its thicket, and a destroyer of nations; he is on his way, he is gone forth from his place, to make your land desolate, that your cities be laid waste, without inhabitant. 8For this gird yourselves with sackcloth, lament and wail; for the fierce anger of Allah has not turned back from us. 9It shall happen at that day, says Allah, that the heart of the king shall perish, and the heart of the princes; and the priests shall be astonished, and the prophets shall wonder. 10Then I said, Ah, Lord Allah! Surely you have greatly deceived this people and Jerusalem, saying, You shall have peace; whereas the sword reaches to the life. 11At that time it shall be said to this people and to Jerusalem, A hot wind from the bare heights in the wilderness toward the daughter of my people, not to winnow, nor to cleanse; 12a full wind from these shall come for me: now will I also utter judgments against them. 13Behold, he shall come up as clouds, and his chariots shall be as the whirlwind: his horses are swifter than eagles. Woe to us! For we are ruined. 14Jerusalem, wash your heart from wickedness, that you may be saved. How long shall your evil thoughts lodge within you? 15For a voice declares from Dan, and publishes evil from the hills of Ephraim: 16make mention to the nations; behold, publish against Jerusalem, that watchers come from a far country, and give out their voice against the cities of Judah. 17They are as keepers of a field against her on all sides, because she has been rebellious against me, says Allah. 18Your way and your doings have procured these things to you; this is your wickedness; for it is bitter, for it reaches to your heart. 19My anguish, my anguish! I am pained at my very heart; my heart is disquieted in me; I cannot hold my peace; because you have heard, O my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war. 20Destruction on destruction is cried; for the whole land is laid waste: suddenly my tents are destroyed, and my curtains in a moment. 21How long shall I see the standard, and hear the sound of the trumpet? 22For my people are foolish, they do not know me; they are foolish children, and they have no understanding; they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge. 23I saw the earth, and, behold, it was waste and void; and the heavens, and they had no light. 24I saw the mountains, and, behold, they trembled, and all the hills moved back and forth. 25I saw, and, behold, there was no man, and all the birds of the sky were fled. 26I saw, and, behold, the fruitful field was a wilderness, and all its cities were broken down at the presence of Allah, and before his fierce anger. 27For thus says Allah, The whole land shall be a desolation; yet will I not make a full end. 28For this the earth shall mourn, and the heavens above be black; because I have spoken it, I have purposed it, and I have not relented, neither will I turn back from it. 29Every city flees for the noise of the horsemen and archers; they go into the thickets, and climb up on the rocks: every city is forsaken, and not a man dwells therein. 30You, when you are made desolate, what will you do? Though you clothe yourself with scarlet, though you deck yourselves with ornaments of gold, though you enlarge your eyes with paint, in vain you make yourself beautiful; your lovers despise you, they seek your life. 31For I have heard a voice as of a woman in labour, the anguish as of her who brings forth her first child, the voice of the daughter of Al-Quds, who gasps for breath, who spreads her hands, saying, Woe is me now! for my soul faints before the murderers.