6. Set up the standard toward Zion: take refuge, delay not: for I will bring evil from the north, and a great destruction.
7. The lion has come up from his thicket, and the destroyer of the nations is on his way; he has gone forth from his place to make your land desolate; and your cities shall be laid waste, without an inhabitant.
8. For this gird yourselves with sackcloth, lament and wail: for the fierce anger of the LORD has not turned back from us.
9. And it shall come to pass at that day,
10. Then said I, Ah, Lord GOD! surely you have greatly deceived this people and Jerusalem, saying, You shall have peace; when the sword reaches unto the soul.