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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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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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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Footnotes

  1. 6:1 = House of the Vineyard

12 Can anyone smash iron,
iron from the north, 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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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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Footnotes

  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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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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