Then the LORD said,“ This means destruction will break out from the north on all who live in the land.

耶和华对我说：“必有灾祸从北方发出，临到这地的一切居民。”

耶和华对我说：“必有灾祸从北方发出，临到这地所有的居民。

耶和华对我说：“必有灾祸从北方发出，临到这地所有的居民。

耶和华说：“不错。因为有灾祸要从北方降临到这地方的一切居民。

耶和华对我说：“必有灾祸从北方发出，临到这地所有的居民。

耶和華對我說：「必有災禍從北方發出，臨到這地的一切居民。」

耶和華對我說：「必有災禍從北方發出，臨到這地所有的居民。

耶和華對我說：「必有災禍從北方發出，臨到這地所有的居民。

耶和華說：「不錯。因為有災禍要從北方降臨到這地方的一切居民。

耶和華對我說：“必有災禍從北方發出，臨到這地所有的居民。

永恆主對我說：『必有災禍從北方爆發，來到這地所有的居民。

耶和華曰、禍必自北而發、臨於斯土眾民矣、

耶和華曰、禍必自北、臨斯民矣。

主諭我曰、禍自北出、臨斯地之一切居民、

The Lord said to me,“ From the north disaster will be poured out on all who live in the land.

The Lord said to me,“ Something very bad will be poured out on everyone who lives in this land. It will come from the north.

Then the Lord said to me,“ Out of the north disaster shall be let loose upon all the inhabitants of the land.

“ Yes,” the Lord said,“ for terror from the north will boil out on the people of this land.

Then the LORD said to me,“ Disaster will be poured out from the north on all who live in the land.

Then the Lord said to me,“ Out of the north the evil will be unleashed on all the inhabitants of the land.

Then the Lord said to me:“ Out of the north calamity shall break forth On all the inhabitants of the land.

Then Jehovah said unto me, Out of the north evil shall break forth upon all the inhabitants of the land.

Then the Lord said to me,“ Disaster will be poured out from the north on all who live in the land.

Then the LORD said unto me, Out of the north an evil shall break forth upon all the inhabitants of the land.

Then Yahweh said to me,“ Out of the north, evil will break out on all the inhabitants of the land.

Listen! News is coming even now. The rumble of a great army is heard approaching from a land in the north. It is coming to turn the towns of Judah into rubble, places where only jackals live.

Raise a signal flag that tells people to go to Zion. Run for safety! Do not delay! For I am about to bring disaster out of the north. It will bring great destruction.

I have stirred up one out of the north and he advances, one from the eastern horizon who prays in my name. He steps on rulers as if they were clay, like a potter treading the clay.

“ This is what the LORD says:‘ Beware! An army is coming from a land in the north. A mighty nation is stirring into action in faraway parts of the earth.

For I will rouse into action and bring against Babylon a host of mighty nations from the land of the north. They will set up their battle lines against her. They will come from the north and capture her. Their arrows will be like a skilled soldier who does not return from the battle empty-handed.

“ Run for safety, people of Benjamin! Get out of Jerusalem! Sound the trumpet in Tekoa! Light the signal fires at Beth Hakkerem! For disaster lurks out of the north; it will bring great destruction.

Egypt is like a beautiful young cow. But northern armies will attack her like swarms of stinging flies.

Then I will reply,‘ I will bring them back from the land of the north. I will gather them in from the distant parts of the earth. Blind and lame people will come with them, so will pregnant women and women about to give birth. A vast throng of people will come back here.

As I watched, I noticed a windstorm coming from the north– an enormous cloud, with lightning flashing, such that bright light rimmed it and came from it like glowing amber from the middle of a fire.

“ Look! An army is about to come from the north. A mighty nation and many kings are stirring into action in faraway parts of the earth.