Set up the standard toward Zion: retire, stay not: for I will bring evil from the north, and a great destruction.
Ver. 6. Set up the standard towards Zion.] All this seemeth to be ironically spoken. as Jer 4:5
For I will bring evil from the north,] i.e., From Babylon. Ab aquilone nihil boni. There is also another Babylon spoken of in the Revelation, which to the true Church hath of long time been lerna malorum; and so the poor persecuted Protestants in Poland feel at this day. Roma radix omnium malorum.