⁴ Listen, a noise on the mountains,
    like that of a great multitude!^(A)
Listen, an uproar^(B) among the kingdoms,
    like nations massing together!
The Lord Almighty^(C) is mustering^(D)
    an army for war.

⁵ The Lord is like an enemy;^(A)
    he has swallowed up Israel.
He has swallowed up all her palaces
    and destroyed her strongholds.^(B)
He has multiplied mourning and lamentation^(C)
    for Daughter Judah.^(D)

⁷ The Lord has rejected his altar
    and abandoned his sanctuary.^(A)
He has given the walls of her palaces^(B)
    into the hands of the enemy;
they have raised a shout in the house of the Lord
    as on the day of an appointed festival.^(C)