¹⁴ And the Lord said to me: from the north shall an evil break forth upon all the inhabitants of the land.

² Thus saith the Lord: Behold there come up waters out of the north, and they shall be as an overflowing torrent, and they shall cover the land, and all that is therein, the city and the inhabitants thereof: then the men shall cry, and all the inhabitants of the land shall howl,