⁶ Raise the signal flag toward Zion.
    Run for your lives! Don’t wait!
Do this because I am bringing disaster from the north.^[a]
    I am bringing terrible destruction.”
⁷ A lion has come out of his cave.
    A destroyer of nations has begun to march.
He has left his home to destroy your land.
    Your towns will be destroyed.
    There will be no one left to live in them.
⁸ The Lord is angry with us,
    so put on sackcloth and cry out loud!