Jeremiah 4:14-17

Contemporary English Version

¹⁴But Jerusalem, there is still time
    for you to be saved.
Wash the evil from your hearts
    and stop making sinful plans,
¹⁵before a message of disaster
arrives from the hills of Ephraim
    and the town of Dan.^[a]

^16-17The Lord said,

“Tell the nations that my people
    have rebelled against me.
And so an army will come
    from far away
to surround Jerusalem
    and the towns of Judah.
I, the Lord, have spoken.

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Footnotes

4.15 Ephraim … Dan: The hills of Ephraim were to the north of Jerusalem, and Dan was even farther north. They would be reached by the invading army first.