I form the light and create darkness,I make peace and create calamity;I, the Lord, do all these things.’

No weapon formed against you shall prosper,And every tongue which rises against you in judgmentYou shall condemn.This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord,And their righteousness is from Me,”Says the Lord.

Therefore the Lord will wait, that He may be gracious to you;And therefore He will be exalted, that He may have mercy on you.For the Lord is a God of justice;Blessed are all those who wait for Him.

For Zion’s sake I will not hold My peace,And for Jerusalem’s sake I will not rest,Until her righteousness goes forth as brightness,And her salvation as a lamp that burns.

For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope.

For they have healed the hurt of the daughter of My people slightly,Saying, ‘Peace, peace!’When there is no peace.

Then I said, “Ah, Lord God!Surely You have greatly deceived this people and Jerusalem,Saying, ‘You shall have peace,’Whereas the sword reaches to the heart.”

They have also healed the hurt of My people slightly,Saying, ‘Peace, peace!’When there is no peace.

O my soul, my soul!I am pained in my very heart!My heart makes a noise in me;I cannot hold my peace,Because you have heard, O my soul,The sound of the trumpet,The alarm of war.

“If you have run with the footmen, and they have wearied you,Then how can you contend with horses?And if in the land of peace,In which you trusted, they wearied you,Then how will you do in the floodplain of the Jordan?