^{6 Ref} Set up a standard toward Zion: flee for safety, stay not; for I will bring evil from the north, and a great destruction.

^{7 Ref} A lion is gone up from his thicket, and a destroyer of nations; he is on his way, he is gone forth from his place, to make thy land desolate, that thy cities be laid waste, without inhabitant.

^{8 Ref} For this gird you with sackcloth, lament and wail; for the fierce anger of Jehovah is not turned back from us.

^{9 Ref} And it shall come to pass at that day, saith Jehovah, that the heart of the king shall perish, and the heart of the princes; and the priests shall be astonished, and the prophets shall wonder.