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

6 “Run for cover^(A)
out of Jerusalem, Benjaminites.
Sound the ram’s horn^(B) in Tekoa;^(C)
raise a smoke signal^(D) over Beth-haccherem,^[a]
for disaster threatens from the north,^(E)
even a crushing blow.

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)