⁶ Set up a banner toward Zion; take to flight, stay not! For I am bringing evil from the north, and a great destruction.

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

⁸ For this, gird you with sackcloth, lament and howl! for the fierce anger of Jehovah is not turned away from us.