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

^{7 Ref} The lion is come up from his thicket, and the destroyer of the Gentiles is on his way; he is gone forth from his place to make thy land desolate; and thy cities shall be laid waste, without an inhabitant.

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

^{9 Ref} And it shall come to pass at that day, saith the LORD, 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.