Мидраш к Ирмеяу 1:15

Another interpretation (of Deut. 2:3): <YOU HAVE HAD ENOUGH OF> GOING ABOUT THIS MOUNTAIN.¹⁹Although various biblical translations render this word as HILL COUNTRY, MOUNTAIN better fits the sense of the midrash. What does it signify regarding the Temple, of which it is written (in Ps. 48:3 [2]): MOUNT ZION FAR IN THE NORTH? Is it not enough for you that you do not accept his mountain? Rather he enters your mountain and destroys it. (Deut. 2:3, cont.:) TURN NORTH. Prepare yourselves for the empires, because they are coming upon you, as stated (in Jer. 1:15): FOR BEHOLD, I AM CALLING ALL THE KINGDOMS OF THE NORTH,²⁰Cf. the Masoretic text, which reads ALL THE FAMILIES OF THE KINGDOMS OF THE NORTH. (Deut. 2:4:) COMMAND THE PEOPLE, SAYING. <These words are> to teach the generations coming after you that they charge each other to be wary of Esau.²¹Cf. Deut. R. 1:20.