1 “I wish that my head were ⌞filled with⌟ water
2 I wish I had a place to stay in the desert.
3 They use their tongues like bows that shoot arrows.
4 “Beware of your neighbors.
5 Everyone cheats his neighbor.
6 Oppression follows oppression.
7 This is what the Lord of Armies says:
8 Their tongues are like deadly arrows.
9 I will punish them for these things, declares the Lord.
10 I will cry and weep for the mountains.
11 I will turn Jerusalem into a pile of rubble, a home for jackals.
12 No one is wise enough to understand this.
13 The Lord answered,
14 They followed their own stubborn ways and other gods—the Baals,
15 This is what the Lord of Armies, the God of Israel, says:
16 I will scatter them among nations
17 This is what the Lord of Armies says:
18 They should come quickly and cry for us.
19 The sound of crying is heard from Zion.
20 Listen to the Lord’s word, you women,
21 Death has come through our windows and entered our palaces.
22 This is what the Lord says:
23 This is what the Lord says:
24 If they want to brag, they should brag that they understand and know me.
25 “The days are coming,” declares the Lord,
26 I will punish Egypt, Judah, Edom, Ammon, and Moab.