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.”

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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)

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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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A Cruel Nation from the North

22 This is what the Lord says:

Look, an army is coming from a northern land;(A)
a great nation will be awakened
from the remote regions of the earth.(B)

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12 Can anyone smash iron,
iron from the north, or bronze?

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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.

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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]

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 50:3 Lit escape; they will walk

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.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 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 great nation and many kings will be stirred up
from the remote regions of the earth.(A)

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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
will come against her.
This is the Lord’s declaration.

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