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31 Howl, O gate; cry out, O city!
    Philistia, all of you melts away!
For there comes a smoke from the north,[a]
    without a straggler in its ranks.
32 What will one answer the messengers of the nations?[b]
    “The Lord has established Zion,
    and in her the afflicted of his people find refuge.”

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Footnotes

  1. 14:31 Smoke from the north: the dust raised from the approach of the Assyrian army.
  2. 14:32 Messengers of the nations: envoys from Philistia, and from Egypt and Ethiopia, the real powers behind the Philistine revolt (20:1–6; cf. 18:1–2).