Holy Scripture

Jeremiah 4:7

A church father on this verse
“"Take up your baggage and flee to Zion"; as many of you as are outside Zion, "take up your baggage and flee to Zion; hasten, do not stand still," you who are in progress hasten to the Watchtower, "for I bring evils from the north and great destruction"—of the evils brought "from the north," from the north of the adver…”
Origen of Alexandria, 3th c. — HOMILIES ON JEREMIAH 5

Source: Septuagint

Original

7The lion is gone up from his lair, he has roused himself to the destruction of the nations, and has gone forth out of his place, to make the land desolate; and the cities shall be destroyed, so as to be without inhabitant.

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In context

5Declare ye in Judah, and let it be heard in Jerusalem: say ye, Sound the trumpet in the land; cry ye aloud: say ye, Gather yourselves together, and let us enter into the fortified cities.

6Gather up your wares and flee to Zion: hasten, stay not: for I will bring evils from the north, and great destruction.

— Jeremiah 4:7 —

8For these things gird yourselves with sackcloth, and lament, and howl: for the anger of the Lord is not turned away from you.

9And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord, that the heart of the king shall perish, and the heart of the princes; and the priests shall be amazed, and the prophets shall wonder.

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