⁷ “‘Be ready and stay ready, you and all your companies assembled around you, and be a guard for them.^{[a] 8} After many days you will be summoned; in the latter years you will come to a land restored from the ravages of war,^[b] from many peoples gathered on the mountains of Israel that had long been in ruins. Its people^[c] were brought out from the peoples, and all of them will be living securely. ⁹ You will advance;^[d] you will come like a storm. You will be like a cloud covering the earth, you, all your troops, and the many other peoples with you.