³¹ Wail, you ^(A)gate; cry, you city;
^[a]Melt away, ^(B)Philistia, all of you!
For smoke comes from the ^(C)north,
And ^(D)there is no straggler in his ranks.

²² This is what the Lord says:
“Behold, there is ^(A)a people coming from the north land,
And a great nation will be stirred up from the ^(B)remote parts of the earth.

²⁰ Egypt is a pretty ^(A)heifer,
But a ^[a]horsefly is coming ^(B)from the north—it is coming!

²⁴ The daughter of Egypt has been put to shame,
Turned over to the ^[a]power of the ^(A)people of the north.”