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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Footnotes

  1. 41:25 DSS read his

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.”

14 Then the Lord said to me, “Disaster will be poured out[a] from the north(B) on all who live in the land.

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  1. 1:14 LXX reads will boil

Lift up a signal flag toward Zion.(A)
Run for cover! Don’t stand still!
For I am bringing disaster from the north—
a crushing blow.(B)

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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

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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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

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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Footnotes

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

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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