Give ear to this, you old men, and take note, you people of the land. Has this ever been in your days, or in the days of your fathers?

For a nation has come up over my land, strong and without number; his teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he has the back teeth of a great lion.

They are running like strong men, they go over the wall like men of war; every man goes straight on his way, their lines are not broken.

And it will be that whoever makes his prayer to the name of the Lord will be kept safe: for in Mount Zion and in Jerusalem some will be kept safe, as the Lord has said, and will be among the small band marked out by the Lord.

And you will be certain that I am the Lord your God, living in Zion, my holy mountain: and Jerusalem will be holy, and no strange person will ever again go through her.

But Judah will be peopled for ever, and Jerusalem from generation to generation.