A lion has gone up from his thicket;(A)
a destroyer of nations has set out.
He has left his lair
to make your land a waste.
Your cities will be reduced to uninhabited ruins.(B)
Because of this, put on sackcloth;
mourn and wail,(C)
for the Lord’s burning anger(D)
has not turned away from us.

“On that day”—this is the Lord’s declaration—“the king and the officials will lose their courage. The priests will tremble in fear, and the prophets will be scared speechless.”

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