14 At this Jehovah said to me: “Out of the north the calamity will be loosened against all the inhabitants of the land.+

6 Take shelter, O YOU sons of Benjamin, from the midst of Jerusalem; and in Te·koʹa+ blow the horn.*+ And over Beth-hac·cheʹrem+ raise a fire signal; because calamity itself has looked down out of the north, even a great crash.+

7 “‘“And after that,” is the utterance of Jehovah, “I shall give Zed·e·kiʹah the king of Judah and his servants and the people and those who are remaining over in this city from the pestilence, from the sword and from the famine, into the hand of Neb·u·chad·rezʹzar the king of Babylon, even into the hand of their enemies and into the hand of those who are seeking for their soul, and he will certainly strike them with the edge* of the sword.+ He will not feel sorry for them, nor will he show compassion or have any mercy.”’+

9 here I am sending and I will take all the families of the north,”+ is the utterance of Jehovah, “even [sending] to Neb·u·chad·rezʹzar the king of Babylon, my servant,+ and I will bring them against this land+ and against its inhabitants and against all these nations round about;+ and I will devote them to destruction and make them an object of astonishment and something to whistle+ at and places devastated to time indefinite.+