31 (A)Wail, O (B)gate; cry out, O city;
    melt in fear, (C)O Philistia, all of you!
(D)For smoke comes out of the north,
    and there is no straggler in his ranks.

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14 Then the Lord said to me, (A)“Out of the north disaster[a] shall be let loose upon all the inhabitants of the land.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 1:14 The Hebrew word can mean evil, harm, or disaster, depending on the context; so throughout Jeremiah

16 They shall drink and stagger and be crazed because of (A)the sword that I am sending among them.”

17 So I took the cup from the Lord's hand, (B)and made all the nations to whom the Lord sent me drink it: 18 (C)Jerusalem and the cities of Judah, its kings and officials, (D)to make them a desolation and a waste, a hissing and a curse, as at this day; 19 (E)Pharaoh king of Egypt, his servants, his officials, all his people, 20 and (F)all the mixed tribes among them; all the kings of (G)the land of Uz and all the kings of (H)the land of the Philistines ((I)Ashkelon, (J)Gaza, Ekron, and the remnant of (K)Ashdod);

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A Sign Against Egypt and Cush

20 In the year that (A)the commander in chief, who was sent by Sargon the king of Assyria, came to (B)Ashdod and fought against it and captured it—

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29 Rejoice not, (A)O Philistia, all of you,
    that (B)the rod that struck you is broken,
for from the serpent's root will come forth an adder,
    and its fruit will be a (C)flying fiery serpent.

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(A)Wail, for (B)the day of the Lord is near;
    as destruction from the Almighty[a] it will come!

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 13:6 The Hebrew words for destruction and almighty sound alike

12 Desolation is left in the city;
    the gates are battered into ruins.

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Therefore let Moab wail for Moab,
    (A)let everyone wail.
Mourn, utterly stricken,
    for the (B)raisin cakes of (C)Kir-hareseth.

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26 And (A)her gates shall lament and mourn;
    empty, she shall (B)sit on the ground.

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