1If youⁱ will return, O Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], says the LORD-Yehovah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), return unto me: and if youⁱ will put away yourⁱ abominations out of my sight, then shall youⁱ not remove.

2And youⁱ shall swear, The LORD-Yehovah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) lives, in truth, in judgment, and in righteousness; and the nations shall bless themselves in him, and in him shall they glory.

3For thus says the LORD-Yehovah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) to the men of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] and Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace], Break up your fallow (to approve, commend, accept) ground, and sow not among thorns.

4Circumcise yourselves to the LORD-Yehovah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), and take away the foreskins of your heart, you^2f men of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] and inhabitants of Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace]: lest my fury come forth like fire, and burn that none can quench [it], because of the evil of your doings.

5Declare you^2f in Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised], and publish in Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace]; and say, Blow you^2f the trumpet in the land: cry, gather together, and say, Assemble yourselves, and let us go into the fortified cities.

6Set up the Flag (banner) toward Tziyon [parched place]: retire, stay not: for I will bring evil from the north, and a great destruction.

7The lion is come up from his thicket, and the destroyer of the Gentiles is on his way; he is gone forth from his place to make yourⁱ land desolate; [and] yourⁱ cities shall be laid waste, without an inhabitant.

8For this gird you with sackcloth, lament and howl: for the fierce anger of the LORD-Yehovah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) is not turned back from us.

9And it shall come to pass at that day, says the LORD-Yehovah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), [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 said I, Ah, Lord-Adonai [Greatest Above All Things] GOD-Yehoveeh (THE FATHER)! surely youⁱ have greatly deceived this people and Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace], saying, You^2f shall have peace; whereas the sword reaches unto the soul.

11At that time shall it be said to this people and to Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace], A dry wind of the high places in the wilderness toward the daughter of my people, not to fan (a fork-shaped tool to throw grain in the air, to let he wind separate the wheat from the chaff), nor to cleanse, 12[Even] a full wind from those [places] shall come unto me: now also will I give sentence against them.

13Behold, he shall come up as clouds, and his chariots [shall be] as a whirlwind: his horses are swifter than eagles. Woe unto us! for we are spoiled.

14O Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace], wash yourⁱ heart from wickedness, that youⁱ may be saved. How long shall youⁱ vain thoughts lodge within youⁱ?

15For a voice declares from Dan [Judge], and proclaims affliction from mount Efrayim [Doubly Fruitful].

16Make you^2f mention to the nations; behold, publish against Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace], [that] watchers come from a far country, and give out their voice against the cities of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised].

17As keepers of a field, are they against her round about; because she has been rebellious against me, says the LORD-Yehovah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate).

18Your1s way and yourⁱ doings have procured these [things] unto youⁱ; this [is] yourⁱ wickedness, because it is bitter, because it reaches unto youⁱ heart.

19My bowels (inward parts; affections), my bowels (inward parts; affections)! I am pained at my very heart; my heart makes a noise in me; I cannot hold my peace, because youⁱ have heard, O my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war.

20Destruction upon destruction is cried; for the whole land is spoiled: suddenly are my tents spoiled, [and] my curtains in a moment.

21How long shall I see the Flag (banner), [and] hear the sound of the trumpet?

22For my people [is] foolish, they have not known me; they [are] drunken children, and they have none understanding: they [are] wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.

23I beheld the earth, and, lo, [it was] without form, and void; and the heavens, and they [had] no light.

24I beheld the mountains, and, lo, they trembled, and all the hills moved lightly.

25I beheld, and, lo, [there was] no man, and all the birds of the heavens were fled.

26I beheld, and, lo, the fruitful place [was] a wilderness, and all the cities thereof were broken down at the presence of the LORD-Yehovah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), [and] by his fierce anger.

27For thus has the LORD-Yehovah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) said, The whole land shall be desolate; yet will I not make a full end.

28For this shall the earth mourn, and the heavens above be black: because I have spoken [it], I have purposed [it], and will not repent, neither will I turn back from it.

29The whole city shall flee for the noise of the horsemen and bowmen; they shall go into thickets, and climb up upon the rocks: every city [shall be] forsaken, and not a man dwell in it.

30And [when] youⁱ [are] spoiled, what will youⁱ do? Though youⁱ clothe yourself with crimson, though youⁱ deck yourselfi with ornaments of gold, though youⁱ rent yourⁱ face with painting, in vain shall youⁱ make yourself fair; [yourⁱ] lovers will despise youⁱ, they will seek yourⁱ life.

31For I have heard a voice as of a woman in travail, [and] the anguish as of her that brings forth her first child, the voice of the daughter of Tziyon [parched place], [that] bewails herself, [that] spreads her hands, [saying], Woe [is] me now! for my soul is wearied because of murderers.