⁶ Lift up a signal flag towards Zion.^(A)
Run for cover! Don’t stand still!
For I am bringing disaster from the north –
a crushing blow.^(B)

¹⁷ You are to speak this word to them:
Let my eyes overflow with tears;
day and night may they not stop,^(A)
for my dearest people^[a]
have been destroyed by a crushing blow,^(B)
an extremely severe wound.^(C)

³ A voice cries out from Horonaim,^(A)
‘devastation and a crushing blow! ’^(B)