³¹ Wail,^(A) you gate!^(B) Howl, you city!
    Melt away, all you Philistines!^(C)
A cloud of smoke comes from the north,^(D)
    and there is not a straggler in its ranks.^(E)

“Look, an army is coming
    from the land of the north;^(A)
a great nation is being stirred up
    from the ends of the earth.^(B)

²⁰ “Egypt is a beautiful heifer,
    but a gadfly is coming
    against her from the north.^(A)

²⁴ Daughter Egypt will be put to shame,
    given into the hands of the people of the north.^(A)”