Jeremiah 4:29-31

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

²⁹ Every city flees^(A)
at the sound of the horseman and the archer.
They enter the thickets
and climb among the rocks.^(B)
Every city is abandoned;
no inhabitant is left.
³⁰ And you, devastated one, what are you doing^(C)
that you dress yourself in scarlet,
that you adorn yourself with gold jewellery,
that you enhance your eyes with makeup?^(D)
You beautify yourself for nothing.
Your lovers reject you;^(E)
they intend to take your life.^(F)
31 I hear a cry like a woman in labour,^(G)
a cry of anguish like one bearing her first child.
The cry of Daughter Zion gasping for breath,
stretching out her hands:^(H)
‘Woe is me, for my life is weary
because of the murderers! ’