[4:13] Look, the enemy is coming like clouds. Their war chariots are like a whirlwind, and their horses are faster than eagles. We are lost! We are doomed!
[4:14] Jerusalem, wash the evil from your heart, so that you may be saved. How long will you go on thinking sinful thoughts?
[4:15] Messengers from the city of Dan and from the hills of Ephraim announce the bad news.
[4:16] They have come to warn the nations and to tell Jerusalem that enemies are coming from a country far away. These enemies will shout against the cities of Judah
[4:17] and will surround Jerusalem like men guarding a field, because her people have rebelled against the Lord. The Lord has spoken.
[4:18] Judah, you have brought this on yourself by the way you have lived and by the things you have done. Your sin has caused this suffering; it has stabbed you through the heart.