“The LORD says: “Behold, waters rise up out of the north, and will become an overflowing stream, and will overflow the land and all that is therein, the city and those who dwell therein. The men will cry, and all the inhabitants of the land will wail.”

Reading this verse in context

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Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.