28 (A)Whose arrows are sharp,
And all their bows bent;
Their horses’ hooves will [a]seem like flint,
And their wheels like a whirlwind.

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  1. Isaiah 5:28 Lit. be regarded as

Your arrows are sharp in the heart of the King’s enemies;
The peoples fall under You.

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The noise of a whip
And the noise of rattling wheels,
Of galloping horses,
Of [a]clattering chariots!

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  1. Nahum 3:2 bounding or jolting

The shields of his mighty men are made red,
The valiant men are in scarlet.
The chariots come with flaming torches
In the day of his preparation,
And [a]the spears are brandished.
The chariots rage in the streets,
They jostle one another in the broad roads;
They seem like torches,
They run like lightning.

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  1. Nahum 2:3 Lit. the cypresses are shaken; LXX, Syr. the horses rush about; Vg. the drivers are stupefied

13 “Arise(A) and (B)thresh, O daughter of Zion;
For I will make your horn iron,
And I will make your hooves bronze;
You shall (C)beat in pieces many peoples;
(D)I will consecrate their gain to the Lord,
And their substance to (E)the Lord of the whole earth.”

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“Son of man, prophesy and say, ‘Thus says the Lord!’ Say:

(A)‘A sword, a sword is sharpened
And also polished!
10 Sharpened to make a dreadful slaughter,
Polished to flash like lightning!
Should we then make mirth?
It despises the scepter of My son,
As it does all wood.
11 And He has given it to be polished,
That it may be handled;
This sword is sharpened, and it is polished
To be given into the hand of (B)the slayer.’

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At the (A)noise of the stamping hooves of his strong horses,
At the rushing of his chariots,
At the rumbling of his wheels,
The fathers will not look back for their children,
[a]Lacking courage,

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  1. Jeremiah 47:3 Lit. From sinking hands

16 Their quiver is like an open tomb;
They are all mighty men.

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The Fall of Babylon Proclaimed

21 The [a]burden against the Wilderness of the Sea.

As (A)whirlwinds in the South pass through,
So it comes from the desert, from a terrible land.

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  1. Isaiah 21:1 oracle, prophecy

Sharp arrows of the [a]warrior,
With coals of the broom tree!

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  1. Psalm 120:4 mighty one

12 If he does not turn back,
He will (A)sharpen His sword;
He bends His bow and makes it ready.
13 He also prepares for Himself instruments of death;
He makes His arrows into fiery shafts.

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22 Then the horses’ hooves pounded,
The galloping, galloping of his steeds.

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