For Yahweh said this to me {while his hand weighed heavily on me}, and he {warned me not to walk} in the way of this people, saying,

[My] indignation will come to an end {in just a very little while}, and my anger [will be] directed to their destruction."

Go, my people, enter into your chambers and shut your doors behind you; hide for {a very little} while, until [the] wrath has passed over.

and [the] withering flower of the glory of its beauty which [is] at [the] head of {the rich valley} will be like its early fig before summer, {which the one who sees it swallows} while it [is] still in his hand.

{In a very little while} shall not Lebanon change into fruitful land, and the fruitful land be regarded as forest?

Seek Yahweh {while he lets himself be found}; call him {while he is} near.

The righteous [one] perishes, and there is no one who takes [it] to heart. And men of faithfulness [are] gathered, while there is no one who understands, for the righteous is gathered from the presence of wickedness.

{Your holy people} took possession for little [while]; our adversaries have trampled down your sanctuary.

And this will happen: before they call, I myself will answer; [while] still they [are] speaking, I myself will hear.