28 Bible Verses about Out Of The North
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Sheol is naked before God,
and Abaddon has no covering.
I looked and there was a whirlwind coming from the north, a great cloud with fire flashing back and forth and brilliant light all around it. In the center of the fire, there was a gleam like amber.
the word of the Lord came directly to Ezekiel the priest, the son of Buzi, in the land of the Chaldeans by the Chebar Canal. And the Lord’s hand was on him there.
Yet out of the north He comes, shrouded in a golden glow;
awesome majesty surrounds Him.
The windstorm comes from its chamber,
and the cold from the driving north winds.
Gusting to the south,
turning to the north,
turning, turning, goes the wind,
and the wind returns in its cycles.
Wail, you gates! Cry out, city!
Tremble with fear, all Philistia!
For a cloud of dust is coming from the north,
and there is no one missing from the invader’s ranks.
Then the Lord said to me, “Disaster will be poured out from the north on all who live in the land. Indeed, I am about to summon all the clans and kingdoms of the north.”
This is the Lord’s declaration.
They will come, and each king will set up his throne
at the entrance to Jerusalem’s gates.
They will attack all her surrounding walls
and all the other cities of Judah.
“Run for cover, Benjaminites,
out of Jerusalem!
Sound the ram’s horn in Tekoa;
raise a smoke signal over Beth-haccherem,
for disaster threatens from the north,
even great destruction.
Again the word of the Lord came to me inquiring, “What do you see?”
And I replied, “I see a boiling pot, its lip tilted from the north to the south.”
Lift up a signal flag toward Zion.
Run for cover! Don’t stand still!
For I am bringing disaster from the north—
a great destruction.
Egypt is a beautiful young cow,
but a horsefly from the north is coming against her.
This is what the Lord says:
Look, waters are rising from the north
and becoming an overflowing wadi.
They will overflow the land and everything in it,
the cities and their inhabitants.
The people will cry out,
and every inhabitant of the land will wail.
This is what the Lord says:
Look, an army is coming from a northern land;
a great nation will be awakened
from the remote regions of the earth.
Listen! A noise—it is coming—
a great commotion from the land to the north.
The cities of Judah will be made desolate,
a jackals’ den.
Look up and see
those coming from the north.
Where is the flock entrusted to you,
the sheep that were your pride?
“I have raised up one from the north, and he has come,
one from the east who invokes My name.
He will march over rulers as if they were mud,
like a potter who treads the clay.
For this is what the Lord God says: “See, I am about to bring King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon, king of kings, against Tyre from the north with horses, chariots, cavalry, and a vast company of troops.
and come from your place in the remotest parts of the north—you and many peoples with you, who are all riding horses—a mighty horde, a huge army?
I will turn you around, drive you on, and lead you up from the remotest parts of the north. I will bring you against the mountains of Israel.
For a nation from the north will come against her;
it will make her land desolate.
No one will be living in it—
both man and beast will escape.
Look! A people comes from the north.
A great nation and many kings will be stirred up
from the remote regions of the earth.
For I will soon stir up and bring against Babylon
an assembly of great nations from the north country.
They will line up in battle formation against her;
from there she will be captured.
Their arrows will be like those of a skilled warrior
who does not return empty-handed.
Heaven and earth and everything in them
will shout for joy over Babylon
because the destroyers from the north
will come against her.
This is the Lord’s declaration.
