Yeremia 1:13

1:13 The Lord again asked me, “What do you see?” I answered, “I see a pot of boiling water; it is tipped toward us from the north.” ¹ 

Yeremia 6:22

6:22 “This is what the Lord says:

‘Beware! An army ²  is coming from a land in the north.

A mighty nation is stirring into action in faraway parts of the earth.

Yeremia 10:22

10:22 Listen! News is coming even now. ³ 

The rumble of a great army is heard approaching ⁴  from a land in the north. ⁵ 

It is coming to turn the towns of Judah into rubble,

places where only jackals live.

[1:13]  ¹ tn Heb “a blown upon [= heated; boiling] pot and its face from the face of the north [= it is facing away from the north].”

[6:22]  ² tn Heb “people.”

[10:22]  ³ tn Heb “The sound of a report, behold, it is coming.”

[10:22]  ⁴ tn Heb “ coming, even a great quaking.”

[10:22]  ⁵ sn Compare Jer 6:22.