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31 Wail, O gate; cry, O city;
    melt in fear, O Philistia, all of you!
For smoke comes out of the north,
    and there is no straggler in its ranks.(A)

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14 Then the Lord said to me: “Out of the north disaster shall break out on all the inhabitants of the land.(A)

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Isaiah Dramatizes the Conquest of Egypt and Cush

20 In the year that the commander-in-chief, who was sent by King Sargon of Assyria, came to Ashdod and fought against it and took it(A)

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16 They shall drink and stagger and go out of their minds because of the sword that I am sending among them.(A)

17 So I took the cup from the Lord’s hand and made all the nations to whom the Lord sent me drink it: 18 Jerusalem and the towns of Judah, its kings and officials, to make them a desolation and a waste, an object of hissing and of cursing, as they are today;(B) 19 Pharaoh king of Egypt, his servants, his officials, and all his people; 20 all the mixed people;[a] all the kings of the land of Uz; all the kings of the land of the Philistines—Ashkelon, Gaza, Ekron, and the remnant of Ashdod;(C)

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Footnotes

  1. 25.20 Meaning of Heb uncertain

29 Do not rejoice, all you Philistines,
    that the rod that struck you is broken,
for from the root of the snake will come forth an adder,
    and its fruit will be a flying fiery serpent.(A)

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Wail, for the day of the Lord is near;
    it will come like destruction from the Almighty![a](A)

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Footnotes

  1. 13.6 Traditional rendering of Heb Shaddai

12 Desolation is left in the city;
    the gates are battered into ruins.

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Therefore let Moab wail;
    let everyone wail for Moab.
Mourn, utterly stricken,
    for the raisin cakes of Kir-hareseth.(A)

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26 And her gates shall lament and mourn;
    desolate, she shall sit upon the ground.(A)

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