Jeremiah 4:1-9
“Set up the standard toward Zion: retire, stay not: for I will bring evil from the north, and a great destruction.”
King James Version
The call to flee Jerusalem as Babylon approaches, fulfilled in Nebuchadnezzar's campaigns against Judah.
Fulfillment References
2 Kings 25:1-4 Lamentations 1:1 Jeremiah 6:1
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