³¹ Wail, O ^(A)gate; cry, O city;
^[a]Melt away, O ^(B)Philistia, all of you;
For smoke comes from the ^(C)north,
And ^(D)there is no straggler in his ranks.

“Behold, ^(A)a people is coming from the land of the north,
And a great nation will be aroused from the ^(B)remote parts of the earth.

²⁰ Egypt is a pretty ^(A)heifer,
But a ^[a]horsefly is coming ^(B)from the north—it is coming!

²⁴ The daughter of Egypt has been put to shame,
Given over to the hand of the ^(A)people of the north.”