3 For a nation comes up out of the north against her,which will make her land desolate,and no one will dwell in it.They have fled.They are gone,both man and animal.
4 “In those days, and in that time,” says the Lord,“the children of Israel will come,they and the children of Judah together;they will go on their way weeping,and will seek the Lord their God.
5 They will inquire concerning Zion with their faces turned toward it,saying, ‘Come, and join yourselves to the Lord in an everlasting covenantthat will not be forgotten.’
6 My people have been lost sheep.Their shepherds have caused them to go astray.They have turned them away on the mountains.They have gone from mountain to hill.They have forgotten their resting place.
7 All who found them have devoured them.Their adversaries said, ‘We are not guilty,because they have sinned against the Lord,the habitation of righteousness,even the Lord, the hope of their fathers.’
8 “Flee out of the middle of Babylon!Go out of the land of the Kasdim,and be as the male goats before the flocks.
9 For, behold, I will stir upand cause to come up against Babylon a company of great nations from the north country;and they will set themselves in array against her.She will be taken from there.Their arrows will be as of an expert mighty man.None of them will return in vain.