⁷ So the Philistines were afraid, for they said, “God has come into the camp!” And they said, ^(A)“Woe to us! For such a thing has never happened before.

⁸ Woe to us! Who will deliver us from the hand of these mighty gods? These are the gods who struck the Egyptians with all the plagues in the wilderness.

² And the captain of the guard took Jeremiah and ^(A)said to him: “The Lord your God has pronounced this doom on this place.

³ Now the Lord has brought it, and has done just as He said. ^(A)Because you people have sinned against the Lord, and not obeyed His voice, therefore this thing has come upon you.