^{1 Ref} Flee for safety, you children of Benjamin, out of the midst of Jerusalem, and blow the trumpet in Tekoa, and raise up a signal on Beth Haccherem; for evil looks forth from the north, and a great destruction.

^{2 Ref} The comely and delicate one, the daughter of Zion, will I cut off.

^{3 Ref} Shepherds with their flocks shall come to her; they shall pitch their tents against her round about; they shall feed everyone in his place.

^{4 Ref} Prepare you war against her; arise, and let us go up at noon. Woe to us! for the day declines, for the shadows of the evening are stretched out.

^{5 Ref} Arise, and let us go up by night, and let us destroy her palaces.