“‘Be prepared and get yourself ready, you and your whole assembly that has been mobilized around you; you will be their guard. After a long time you will be summoned. In the last years you will enter a land that has been restored from war[a] and regathered from many peoples to the mountains of Israel, which had long been a ruin.(A) They were brought out from the peoples, and all of them now live securely. You, all of your troops, and many peoples with you will advance, coming like a thunderstorm; you will be like a cloud covering the land.

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Footnotes

  1. 38:8 Lit from the sword

(A)“Be ready and keep ready, you and all your hosts that are assembled about you, and be a guard for them. (B)After many days you will be mustered. (C)In the latter years you will go against (D)the land that is restored from war, the land whose people (E)were gathered from many peoples upon (F)the mountains of Israel, which had been a continual waste. Its people were brought out from the peoples and (G)now dwell securely, all of them. You will advance, coming on (H)like a storm. You will be (I)like a cloud covering the land, you and all your (J)hordes, and many peoples with you.

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