Jeremiah 4:6

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Raise a standard toward Zion, flee for safety, do not delay, for I am bringing evil from the north, and a great destruction.

Cross References

Isaiah 62:10

Go through, go through the gates, prepare the way for the people; build up, build up the highway, clear it of stones, lift up an ensign over the peoples.

Jeremiah 10:22

Hear, a noise! Listen, it is coming— a great commotion from the land of the north to make the cities of Judah a desolation, a lair of jackals.

Jeremiah 18:11

Now, therefore, say to the people of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem: Thus says the Lord: Look, I am a potter shaping evil against you and devising a plan against you. Turn now, all of you from your evil way, and amend your ways and your doings.

Jeremiah 21:7

Afterward, says the Lord, I will give King Zedekiah of Judah, and his servants, and the people in this city—those who survive the pestilence, sword, and famine—into the hands of King Nebuchadrezzar of Babylon, into the hands of their enemies, into the hands of those who seek their lives. He shall strike them down with the edge of the sword; he shall not pity them, or spare them, or have compassion.

Jeremiah 22:7

I will prepare destroyers against you, all with their weapons; they shall cut down your choicest cedars and cast them into the fire.

Jeremiah 25:9

I am going to send for all the tribes of the north, says the Lord, even for King Nebuchadrezzar of Babylon, my servant, and I will bring them against this land and its inhabitants, and against all these nations around; I will utterly destroy them, and make them an object of horror and of hissing, and an everlasting disgrace.

Jeremiah 4:21

How long must I see the standard, and hear the sound of the trumpet?

Jeremiah 50:2

Declare among the nations and proclaim, set up a banner and proclaim, do not conceal it, say: Babylon is taken, Bel is put to shame, Merodach is dismayed. Her images are put to shame, her idols are dismayed.

Jeremiah 50:22

The noise of battle is in the land, and great destruction!

Jeremiah 51:12

Raise a standard against the walls of Babylon; make the watch strong; post sentinels; prepare the ambushes; for the Lord has both planned and done what he spoke concerning the inhabitants of Babylon.

Jeremiah 51:27

Raise a standard in the land, blow the trumpet among the nations; prepare the nations for war against her, summon against her the kingdoms, Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz; appoint a marshal against her, bring up horses like bristling locusts.

Jeremiah 51:54

Listen!—a cry from Babylon! A great crashing from the land of the Chaldeans!

Jeremiah 6:1

Flee for safety, O children of Benjamin, from the midst of Jerusalem! Blow the trumpet in Tekoa, and raise a signal on Beth-haccherem; for evil looms out of the north, and great destruction.

Jeremiah 6:22

Thus says the Lord: See, a people is coming from the land of the north, a great nation is stirring from the farthest parts of the earth.

Ezekiel 9:1

Then he cried in my hearing with a loud voice, saying, “Draw near, you executioners of the city, each with his destroying weapon in his hand.”

Ezekiel 9:2

And six men came from the direction of the upper gate, which faces north, each with his weapon for slaughter in his hand; among them was a man clothed in linen, with a writing case at his side. They went in and stood beside the bronze altar.

Zephaniah 1:10

On that day, says the Lord, a cry will be heard from the Fish Gate, a wail from the Second Quarter, a loud crash from the hills.

Zechariah 6:6

The chariot with the black horses goes toward the north country, the white ones go toward the west country, and the dappled ones go toward the south country.”