“Set up the standard toward Zion: retire, stay not: for I will bring evil from the north, and a great destruction.”
The specification of the threat: 'Raise the signal to go to Zion! Flee for safety without delay! For I am bringing disaster from the north, even terrible destruction.' This verse names Zion (Jerusalem/the temple) as the final destination of those fleeing—ironic in that the temple itself will be destroyed in the coming invasion. The phrase 'terrible destruction' conveys the magnitude and horror of the coming catastrophe. The attribution of the invasion to God ('I am bringing disaster') reiterates the theology: the Babylonian army is God's instrument, the invasion is God's judgment. Theologically, this verse emphasizes that God is the author of judgment, that the military conquest will be understood as divine action rather than mere historical accident.
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