When he came, {there was} Eli sitting on his chair {by the side of the road} watching, because his heart was anxious about the ark of God. Now the man had come {to give his report} in the city, and all the city cried out.

Indeed, I hoped for good, but evil came, and I waited for light, but darkness came.

Therefore justice is far from us, and righteousness does not reach us. We wait for light, but look! [there is] darkness; for brightness, [but] we walk in darkness.

[We] hope for peace, but there is no good, for a time of healing, but there is terror.

Have you completely rejected Judah? Or has your soul loathed Zion? Why have you struck us so that there is no healing for us? We hope for peace, but there is no good, and for a time of healing, but look, there is terror.

But

For her wounds [are] incurable, because it has come to Judah. It has reached to the gate of my people, to Jerusalem.

form light and create darkness; make peace and create evil; I [am] Yahweh; do all these [things].

Or is a horn blown in a city and people are not afraid? Or does a disaster occur in the city and Yahweh has not done [it]?

General references

Desolation is left in the city; [the] gate is crushed [into] a state of ruin.

[We] hope for peace, but there is no good, for a time of healing, but there is terror.