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6 Get out of Yerushalem (Jerusalem) and get yourselves to safety, you people of Benyamin,
≈ Send up a signal from Beyt-Hakkerem
because disaster and terrible destruction looms from the north.
2 Although it’s beautiful and delicate,
I will destroy Tsiyyon’s (Zion’s) daughter.
3 Shepherds and their flocks will go and pitch their tents all around it.[fn]
Each one will graze their own area.
Take action and let’s attack at midday.
It won’t be good for us if the day is ending
because the evening shadows get longer.
5 Take action and attack at night
6 Commander-in-chief Yahweh says:
Cut down trees for timber
and mound up a ramp against Yerushalem (Jerusalem).
→ That city must be punished as it’s full of oppression.
7 Just as a well keeps its water fresh,
≈ so too she keeps her evil fresh.
Violence and oppression can be heard there.
≈ I always see sickness and plague.
8 Take note of my warning Yerushalem
in case I turn away from you—
in case I make you desolate—
a land that’s not inhabited.
6:3 Many English translations interpret these ‘shepherds’ with their ‘flocks’ to be leaders of foreign nations with their armies implenting the destruction mentioned in the previous verse, i.e., the ones battling in the next verse. However, we’ve chosen to interprete the flocks grazing the city surrounds as the follow-on after the destruction, before the next verse goes back in time to give more details of how the destruction will occur.
