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Invasion[a]

26 He will raise a signal to a far-off nation,
    and whistle for it from the ends of the earth.(A)
    Then speedily and promptly they will come.

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Footnotes

  1. 5:26–30 This oracle threatens a future judgment, an invasion of the Assyrian army, God’s instrument for punishing Judah (10:5, 15).

26 He lifts up a banner(A) for the distant nations,
    he whistles(B) for those at the ends of the earth.(C)
Here they come,
    swiftly and speedily!

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Upon the bare mountains set up a signal;
    cry out to them,[a]
Beckon for them to enter
    the gates of the nobles.(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 13:2 To them: the Medes (v. 17), who are being summoned to destroy Babylon. Gates of the nobles: the reference is apparently to the gates of Babylon and involves a wordplay on the city name (Babylon = bab ilani, “gate of the gods”).

Raise a banner(A) on a bare hilltop,
    shout to them;
beckon to them
    to enter the gates(B) of the nobles.

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