Then the people will say, “◄Why should we wait here in these small towns?/We should not wait here in these small towns.► [RHQ]! We should go to the cities that have high walls around them, but even if we do that we will be killed there, because Yahweh our God has decided that we must be destroyed; it is as though [MET] he has given us a cup of poison to drink, because we sinned against him.