Isaiah 41:25
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25 “I have raised 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.
Footnotes
- Isaiah 41:25 DSS read his
Jeremiah 1:13-14
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13 Again the word of the Lord came to me inquiring, “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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- Jeremiah 1:14 LXX reads will boil
Jeremiah 4:6
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6 Lift up a signal flag toward Zion.(A)
Run for cover! Don’t stand still!
For I am bringing disaster from the north—
a great destruction.(B)
Jeremiah 6:1
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Threatened Siege of Jerusalem
6 “Run for cover,(A) Benjaminites,
out of Jerusalem!
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 great destruction.
Footnotes
- Jeremiah 6:1 = House of the Vineyard
Jeremiah 47:2
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2 This is what the Lord says:
Look, waters are rising from the north
and becoming an overflowing wadi.
They will overflow the land and everything in it,(A)
the cities and their inhabitants.
The people will cry out,
and every inhabitant of the land will wail.
Jeremiah 50:3
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3 For a nation from the north will come against her;(A)
it will make her land desolate.
No one will be living in it—
both man and beast will escape.[a]
Footnotes
- Jeremiah 50:3 Lit escape; they will walk
Jeremiah 50:9
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9 For I will soon stir up and bring against Babylon
an assembly of great nations from the north country.
They will line up in battle formation against her;
from there she will be captured.
Their arrows will be like those of a skilled[a] warrior
who does not return empty-handed.
Footnotes
- Jeremiah 50:9 Some Hb mss, LXX, Syr; other Hb mss read bereaving
Jeremiah 50:41
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The Conquest of Babylon
41 Look! A people comes from the north.
A great nation and many kings will be stirred up
from the remote regions of the earth.(A)
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