⁶ Raise a standard toward Zion,
    flee for safety, stay not,
for I bring evil from the north,
    and great destruction.
⁷ A lion has gone up from his thicket,
    a destroyer of nations has set out;
    he has gone forth from his place
to make your land a waste;
    your cities will be ruins
    without inhabitant.
⁸ For this gird you with sackcloth,
    lament and wail;
for the fierce anger of the Lord
    has not turned back from us.”