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    Raise a banner toward Zion, Jerusalem;
        point everyone toward her refuge.
    Don’t wait, for I am releasing an evil from the north that will devastate the land.
        For a lion has stepped out of the thicket;
    A destroyer of nations is on the move.
        He has left his den to devour your land;
        your cities will be left in ruin, empty and lifeless.”

The time of mourning is here.
    Put on your sackcloth, and get ready to cry and scream.
Since we have not turned from our sin,
    the blazing anger of the Eternal has not turned away from us.

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Raise the signal(A) to go to Zion!
    Flee for safety without delay!
For I am bringing disaster(B) from the north,(C)
    even terrible destruction.”

A lion(D) has come out of his lair;(E)
    a destroyer(F) of nations has set out.
He has left his place
    to lay waste(G) your land.
Your towns will lie in ruins(H)
    without inhabitant.
So put on sackcloth,(I)
    lament(J) and wail,
for the fierce anger(K) of the Lord
    has not turned away from us.

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