1I wish that my head was like [MET] a spring of water,
2I wish that I could leave my people and forget them,
3Yahweh replied to me,
4Do not trust your neighbors and even your brothers!
5They deceive their friends
6They habitually lie and deceive each other,
7Therefore I, the Commander of the armies of angels, say this:
8What they say [MTY] injures people like [MET] poisoned arrows do.
9Should I not punish them for doing that [RHQ]?
10So, I will weep and wail for the people who live in the mountains and in the ◄pastures/places where the livestock eat the grass►,
11Yahweh also says, “I will cause Jerusalem to become a heap of ruins,
12I said, “Only people who are very wise [RHQ] can understand these things.
13Yahweh replied, “These things will happen because my people have rejected my laws which I gave to them;
14Instead, they have stubbornly done the things that they wanted to do.
15So now listen to what I, the Commander of the armies of angels, the God of the Israelis, say:
16I will scatter them to many nations which neither they nor their ancestors have known anything about;
17This is also what the Commander of the armies of angels says:
18Tell them to come quickly and start to wail,
19Listen to the people of Jerusalem crying/lamenting, saying,
20You women, listen to what Yahweh says [MTY].
21because people will be dying [PRS] in your houses and in palaces.
22There will be corpses scattered across the fields like dung;
23Yahweh says this:
24Instead, those who want to boast should boast about their knowing me