14 The Lord said to me, “From the north(A) disaster will be poured out on all who live in the land.

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14 Then the Lord said unto me, Out of the north an evil shall break forth upon all the inhabitants of the land.

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I will summon(A) all the peoples of the north(B) and my servant(C) Nebuchadnezzar(D) king of Babylon,” declares the Lord, “and I will bring them against this land and its inhabitants and against all the surrounding nations. I will completely destroy[a](E) them and make them an object of horror and scorn,(F) and an everlasting ruin.(G)

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 25:9 The Hebrew term refers to the irrevocable giving over of things or persons to the Lord, often by totally destroying them.

Behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, saith the Lord, and Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will bring them against this land, and against the inhabitants thereof, and against all these nations round about, and will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, and an hissing, and perpetual desolations.

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24 Daughter Egypt will be put to shame,
    given into the hands of the people of the north.(A)

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24 The daughter of Egypt shall be confounded; she shall be delivered into the hand of the people of the north.

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