Jeremiah 50:3
King James VersionSource notes
“For out of the north there cometh up a nation against her, which shall make her land desolate, and none shall dwell therein: they shall remove, they shall depart, both man and beast.”
Context
1The word that the LORD spake against Babylon against the land of the Chaldeans by Jeremiah the prophet.
2Declare ye among the nations, and publish, and set up a standard; publish, conceal not: say, Babylon is taken, Bel is confounded, Merodach is broken in pieces; her idols are confounded, her images are broken in pieces.
3For out of the north there cometh up a nation against her, which shall make her land desolate, and none shall dwell therein: they shall remove, they shall depart, both man and beast.
4In those days, and in that time, saith the LORD, the children of Israel shall come, they and the children of Judah together, going and weeping: they shall go, and seek the LORD their God.
5They shall ask the way to Zion with their faces thitherward, Come, and let us join ourselves to the LORD in a perpetual covenant shall not be forgotten.
6My people hath been lost sheep: their shepherds have caused them to go astray, they have turned them away the mountains: they have gone from mountain to hill, they have forgotten their restingplace.