6 “·Run for your lives [Take refuge/shelter], ·people [^Lsons] of Benjamin!
    ·Run away [Take refuge/shelter] from Jerusalem!
Blow the ·war trumpet [ram’s horn] in the town of Tekoa [^Cabout ten miles southeast of Jerusalem]!
    Raise the warning flag over the town of Beth Hakkerem [^C“House of Vineyards,” of uncertain location]!
·Disaster [Evil] is coming from the north [^CBabylon];
    terrible destruction is coming to you.
² ·Jerusalem [^LDaughter of Zion; ^Cthe location of the Temple], I ·will destroy you,
    you who are fragile and gentle [or compare you to a delightful pasture].