⁶ Lift up a signal toward Zion,
    bring yourselves to safety; you must not remain standing,
for I am bringing evil from the north,
    and a great destruction.
⁷ A lion has gone up from his thicket,
    and a destroyer of nations has set out.
He has gone out from his place to make your land as a horror,
    your cities will go to ruin without^[a] inhabitant.
⁸ Because of this gird yourselves with sackcloth,^[b] lament and wail,
    for the burning anger^[c] of Yahweh has not turned back from us.