⁷ Be ready, and prepare yourselves,^[a] you and all of your assembly,^[b] the assembling^[c] around you, and you must be^[d] for them as a guard. ⁸ After many days you will be mustered; in the last years^[e] you will come to a restored land from the sword, gathered from many peoples on the mountains of Israel which were as permanent ruins^[f] but from peoples it was brought out, and they will dwell in safety,^[g] all of them. ⁹ And you will advance like a storm; you will come, and you will be like a cloud covering^[h] the land, and all of your troops and many nations along with you.”