Break up your hard rocky soil;
    don’t plant among the thorns.
⁴ Dedicate^[a] yourselves to the Lord;
    don’t be thick-skinned,^[b]
        people of Judah and residents of Jerusalem,
    or else my anger will spread like a wildfire.
        It will burn, with no one to put it out,
        because of your evil deeds.

⁵ Announce in Judah,
        in Jerusalem proclaim,
    sound the alarm throughout the land,
        cry out and say,
        “Gather together!
        Let’s flee to the fortified towns!”