Jer 4:6, 8, 5:15, 6:22-23, 21:4, 25:9 | ESV | STEP | Raise a standard toward Zion , flee for safety , stay not , for I bring disaster from the north , and great destruction .

Jeremiah 4:6

6 ^aRaise a standard toward Zion,
flee for safety, stay not,
for I bring disaster from ^bthe north,
^cand great destruction.

Jeremiah 4:8

8 For this ^dput on sackcloth,
lament and wail,
for ^ethe fierce anger of the Lord
has not turned back from us.”

Jeremiah 5:15

15 ^fBehold, I am bringing against you
a nation from afar, O house of Israel,

declares the Lord.
It is an enduring nation;
it is an ancient nation,
a nation whose language you do not know,
^gnor can you understand what they say.

Jeremiah 6:22-23

22 Thus says the Lord:
^h“Behold, a people is coming ⁱfrom the north country,
a great nation is stirring from ^jthe farthest parts of the earth.
23 They lay hold on bow and javelin;
they are ^kcruel and have no mercy;
^lthe sound of them is like the roaring sea;
they ride on horses,
set in array as a man for battle,
against you, O daughter of Zion!”

Jeremiah 21:4

4 ‘Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel: ^mBehold, I will turn back the weapons of war that are in your hands and with which you are fighting against the king of Babylon and against the Chaldeans who are besieging you outside the walls. ⁿAnd I will bring them together into the midst of this city.

Jeremiah 25:9

9 ^obehold, I will send for all the tribes of the north, declares the Lord, and for Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, ^pmy servant, and I will bring them against this land and its inhabitants, and against all these surrounding nations. I will devote them to destruction, ^qand make them a horror, a hissing, and an everlasting desolation.