Jeremiah 6:1-8 - Threatened Siege Of Jerusalem
1 Come out of Jerusalem, ye strong children of Benjamin! Blow up the trumpets ye Tekoites, set up a token unto Bethhaccherem; for a plague and a great misery peepeth out from the North. 2 I will liken the daughter of Zion to a fair and tender woman, and to her shall come the shepherds with their flocks. 3 Their tents shall they pitch round about her, and every one shall feed his part with his hand. 4 "Make battle against her!" shall they say. "Arise, let us go up, while it is yet day!" "Alas, the day goeth away, and the night shadows fall down!" 5 "Arise, let us go up by night, and destroy her strongholds!"
6 For thus hath the LORD of Hosts commanded: "Hew down her trees, and set up bulwarks against Jerusalem. This is the city that must be punished, for in her is all maliciousness. 7 Like as a conduit aboundeth in water, even so this city aboundeth in wickedness. Robbery and unrighteousness is heard in her, sorrow and wounds are ever there in my sight. 8 Amend thee, O Jerusalem, lest I withdraw my heart from thee, and make thee desolate: and thy land also, that no man dwell in it."