31 Howl, O gate! Cry out, O city! All of you must become disheartened, O Phi·lisʹti·a! For out of the north a smoke is coming, and there is no one getting isolated from his ranks.”+

6 I shall say to the north,+ ‘Give up!’ and to the south,* ‘Do not keep back. Bring my sons from far off, and my daughters from the extremity of the earth,+

14 At this Jehovah said to me: “Out of the north the calamity will be loosened against all the inhabitants of the land.+

9 here I am sending and I will take all the families of the north,”+ is the utterance of Jehovah, “even [sending] to Neb·u·chad·rezʹzar the king of Babylon, my servant,+ and I will bring them against this land+ and against its inhabitants and against all these nations round about;+ and I will devote them to destruction and make them an object of astonishment and something to whistle+ at and places devastated to time indefinite.+