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20 I shall drive the northern army far from you
    and banish them to an arid and desolate land,
with their vanguard toward the eastern sea,[a]
    and their rearguard toward the western sea.
They will give off a stench,
    and a foul stench will rise up.

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Footnotes

  1. Joel 2:20 It was from the north that invading armies usually entered Palestine. The eastern sea and the western sea are, respectively, the Dead Sea and the Mediterranean.

20 “I will drive the northern horde(A) far from you,
    pushing it into a parched and barren land;
its eastern ranks will drown in the Dead Sea
    and its western ranks in the Mediterranean Sea.
And its stench(B) will go up;
    its smell will rise.”

Surely he has done great things!

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