How long must I see the battle flags and hear the trumpets of war?

我看见大旗，听见角声，要到几时呢？

我看见大旗，听见角声，要到几时呢？

我看见大旗，听见角声，要到几时呢？

我还要看这旌旗、听这号声到何时呢？

我看见旗号要到几时呢？我听见号角的声音要到几时呢？

我看見大旗，聽見角聲，要到幾時呢？

我看見大旗，聽見角聲，要到幾時呢？

我看見大旗，聽見角聲，要到幾時呢？

我還要看這旌旗、聽這號聲到何時呢？

我看見旗號要到幾時呢？我聽見號角的聲音要到幾時呢？

我看旌旗、要到幾時呢？我聽號角聲、要到多久呢？

我瞻旌斾、我聞角聲、何時而止、

我見旌纛、我聞角音、何時可止。

我見旗纛、我聞角聲、何時為止、

How long must I see the battle standard and hear the sound of the trumpet?

How long must I look at our enemy’s battle flag? How long must I hear the sound of the trumpets?

How long must I see the standard and hear the sound of the trumpet?

How long must I see the signal flag and hear the sound of the ram’s horn?

How long must I see the flag And hear the sound of the trumpet?

How long will I see the standard, And hear the sound of the trumpet?

How long shall I see the standard, and hear the sound of the trumpet?

How long must I see the signal flag and hear the sound of the ram’s horn?

How long shall I see the standard,[ and] hear the sound of the trumpet?

“ How long must I see the enemy’s battle flags and hear the military signals of their bugles?”

How long will I see the standard and hear the sound of the trumpet?

Then he was deposed by the king of Egypt, who demanded that Judah pay 7,500 pounds of silver and 75 pounds of gold as tribute.

“ Run for your lives, you people of Benjamin! Get out of Jerusalem! Sound the alarm in Tekoa! Send up a signal at Beth hakkerem! A powerful army is coming from the north, coming with disaster and destruction.

In the spring of the year King Nebuchadnezzar took Jehoiachin to Babylon. Many treasures from the Temple of the Lord were also taken to Babylon at that time. And Nebuchadnezzar installed Jehoiachin’s uncle, Zedekiah, as the next king in Judah and Jerusalem.

Then King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon came to Jerusalem and captured it, and he bound Jehoiakim in bronze chains and led him away to Babylon.Nebuchadnezzar also took some of the treasures from the Temple of the Lord, and he placed them in his palace in Babylon.

My heart, my heart— I writhe in pain! My heart pounds within me! I cannot be still. For I have heard the blast of enemy trumpets and the roar of their battle cries.

The prophet Jeremiah composed funeral songs for Josiah, and to this day choirs still sing these sad songs about his death. These songs of sorrow have become a tradition and are recorded in The Book of Laments.

“ Shout to Judah, and broadcast to Jerusalem! Tell them to sound the alarm throughout the land:‘ Run for your lives! Flee to the fortified cities!’Raise a signal flag as a warning for Jerusalem:‘ Flee now! Do not delay!’ For I am bringing terrible destruction upon you from the north.”

So the Lord brought the king of Babylon against them. The Babylonians killed Judah’s young men, even chasing after them into the Temple. They had no pity on the people, killing both young men and young women, the old and the infirm. God handed all of them over to Nebuchadnezzar.