⁶ If the horn is sounded in the town will the people not be full of fear? will evil come on a town if the Lord has not done it?

⁷ I am the giver of light and the maker of the dark; causing blessing, and sending troubles; I am the Lord, who does all these things.

¹⁶ A day of sounding the horn and the war-cry against the walled towns and the high towers.

²⁴ The Lord has taken an oath, saying, My design will certainly come about, and my purpose will be effected:

²⁵ To let the Assyrian be broken in my land, and crushed under foot on my mountains: there will his yoke be taken away from them, and his rule over them come to an end.

²⁶ This is the purpose for all the earth: and this is the hand stretched out over all nations.

²⁷ For it is the purpose of the Lord of armies, and who will make it of no effect? when his hand is stretched out, by whom may it be turned back?

⁸ Let the horn be sounded in Gibeah and in Ramah; give a loud cry in Beth-aven, They are after you, O Benjamin.

¹ Go in flight out of Jerusalem, so that you may be safe, you children of Benjamin, and let the horn be sounded in Tekoa, and the flag be lifted up on Beth-haccherem: for evil is looking out from the north, and a great destruction.

⁵ Say openly in Judah, give it out in Jerusalem, and say, Let the horn be sounded in the land: crying out in a loud voice, Come together, and let us go into the walled towns.

²⁰ As for you, it was in your mind to do me evil, but God has given a happy outcome, the salvation of numbers of people, as you see today.

¹¹ Having in mind, then, the fear of the Lord, we put these things before men, but God sees our hearts; and it is my hope that we may seem right in your eyes.

²⁸ To do that which had been fixed before by your hand and your purpose.

²³ Him, when he was given up, by the decision and knowledge of God, you put to death on the cross, by the hands of evil men:

³ If, when he sees the sword coming on the land, by sounding the horn he gives the people news of their danger;

⁷ Who would not have fear of you, O King of the nations? for it is your right: for among all the wise men of the nations, and in all their kingdoms, there is no one like you.

²² Have you no fear of me? says the Lord; will you not be shaking with fear before me, who have put the sand as a limit for the sea, by an eternal order, so that it may not go past it? and though it is ever in motion, it is not able to have its way; though the sound of its waves is loud, they are not able to go past it.