Jeremiah 4:30-31

Good News Translation

³⁰ Jerusalem, you are doomed!
    Why do you dress in scarlet?
    Why do you put on jewelry and paint your eyes?
You are making yourself beautiful for nothing!
    Your lovers have rejected you
    and want to kill you.
³¹ I heard a cry, like a woman in labor,
    a scream like a woman bearing her first child.
It was the cry of Jerusalem gasping for breath,
    stretching out her hand and saying,
“I am doomed!
    They are coming to kill me!”