Hear, O earth: behold, I will bring evil upon this people, even the fruit of their thoughts. Behold, against this family do I devise an evil, from which ye shall not remove your necks; neither shall ye go haughtily: for this time is evil. I was almost in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly, who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the forwardness of the wicked; and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is evil. For innumerable evils have compassed me about: mine iniquities have taken hold upon me, so that I am not able to look up; they are more than the hairs of mine head: therefore my heart faileth me.

Behold, I will bring evil upon this place, the which whosoever heareth, his ears shall tingle. When I shall send upon them the evil arrows of famine, which shall be for their destruction, and which I will send to destroy you: and I will increase the famine upon you, and will break your staff of bread. So will I send upon you famine and evil beasts, and they shall bereave thee: and pestilence and blood shall pass through thee; and I will bring the sword upon thee. Wherefore should I fear in the days of evil, when the iniquity of my heels shall compass me about?

Therefore shall evil come upon thee; thou shalt not know from whence it riseth: and mischief shall fall upon thee; thou shalt not be able to put it off: and desolation shall come upon thee suddenly, which thou shalt not know. Let them be confounded that persecute me, but let not me be confounded: let them be dismayed, but let not me be dismayed: bring upon them the day of evil, and destroy them with double destruction, and that I have not said in vain that I would do this evil unto them. An evil, an only evil, behold, is come; sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.