31 Wail, you gates!(A) Cry out, city!
Tremble with fear,(B) all Philistia!
For a cloud of dust is coming from the north,(C)
and there is no one missing from the invader’s ranks.

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31 Wail,(A) you gate!(B) Howl, you city!
    Melt away, all you Philistines!(C)
A cloud of smoke comes from the north,(D)
    and there is not a straggler in its ranks.(E)

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25 “I have stirred up one from the north,(A) and he has come,
one from the east(B) who invokes my[a] name.(C)
He will march over rulers as if they were mud,
like a potter who treads the clay.

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  1. 41:25 DSS read his

25 “I have stirred(A) up one from the north,(B) and he comes—
    one from the rising sun who calls on my name.
He treads(C) on rulers as if they were mortar,
    as if he were a potter treading the clay.

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13 Again the word of the Lord came to me asking, “What do you see?”

And I replied, “I see a boiling pot,(A) its lip tilted from the north to the south.”

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13 The word of the Lord came to me again: “What do you see?”(A)

“I see a pot that is boiling,” I answered. “It is tilting toward us from the north.”

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20 Disaster after disaster(A) is reported
because the whole land is destroyed.
Suddenly my tents are destroyed,
my tent curtains, in a moment.

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20 Disaster follows disaster;(A)
    the whole land lies in ruins.(B)
In an instant my tents(C) are destroyed,
    my shelter in a moment.

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Threatened Siege of Jerusalem

“Run for cover(A)
out of Jerusalem, Benjaminites.
Sound the ram’s horn(B) in Tekoa;(C)
raise a smoke signal(D) over Beth-haccherem,[a]
for disaster threatens from the north,(E)
even a crushing blow.

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  1. 6:1 = House of the Vineyard

Jerusalem Under Siege

“Flee for safety, people of Benjamin!
    Flee from Jerusalem!
Sound the trumpet(A) in Tekoa!(B)
    Raise the signal over Beth Hakkerem!(C)
For disaster looms out of the north,(D)
    even terrible destruction.

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12 Can anyone smash iron,
iron from the north, or bronze?

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12 “Can a man break iron—
    iron from the north(A)—or bronze?

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This is what the Lord says:

Look, water is rising from the north(A)
and becoming an overflowing wadi.
It will overflow the land and everything in it,(B)
the cities and their inhabitants.
The people will cry out,
and every inhabitant of the land will wail.

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This is what the Lord says:

“See how the waters are rising in the north;(A)
    they will become an overflowing torrent.
They will overflow the land and everything in it,
    the towns and those who live in them.
The people will cry out;
    all who dwell in the land will wail(B)

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For a nation from the north will attack her;(A)
it will make her land desolate.
No one will be living in it—
both people and animals will escape.[a](B)

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  1. 50:3 Lit escape; they will walk

A nation from the north(A) will attack her
    and lay waste her land.
No one will live(B) in it;
    both people and animals(C) will flee away.

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For I will soon stir up and bring against Babylon(A)
an assembly of great nations from the north country.
They will line up in battle formation against her;(B)
from there she will be captured.
Their arrows will be like a skilled[a] warrior
who does not return empty-handed.

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  1. 50:9 Some Hb mss, LXX, Syr; other Hb mss read bereaving

For I will stir(A) up and bring against Babylon
    an alliance of great nations(B) from the land of the north.(C)
They will take up their positions against her,
    and from the north she will be captured.(D)
Their arrows(E) will be like skilled warriors
    who do not return empty-handed.

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The Conquest of Babylon

41 Look! A people comes from the north.(A)
A great nation and many kings will be stirred up
from the remote regions of the earth.(B)

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41 “Look! An army is coming from the north;(A)
    a great nation and many kings
    are being stirred(B) up from the ends of the earth.(C)

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48 Heaven and earth and everything in them
will shout for joy(A) over Babylon
because the destroyers from the north(B)
will come against her.
This is the Lord’s declaration.

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48 Then heaven and earth and all that is in them
    will shout(A) for joy over Babylon,
for out of the north(B)
    destroyers(C) will attack her,”
declares the Lord.

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For this is what the Lord God says: “See, I am about to bring King Nebuchadnezzar[a] of Babylon, king of kings,(A) against Tyre from the north with horses, chariots, cavalry, and a huge assembly of troops.

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  1. 26:7 Lit Nebuchadrezzar

“For this is what the Sovereign Lord says: From the north I am going to bring against Tyre Nebuchadnezzar[a](A) king of Babylon, king of kings,(B) with horses and chariots,(C) with horsemen and a great army.

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  1. Ezekiel 26:7 Hebrew Nebuchadrezzar, of which Nebuchadnezzar is a variant; here and often in Ezekiel and Jeremiah