27 “Lift up a banner(A) in the land!
    Blow the trumpet among the nations!
Prepare the nations for battle against her;
    summon against her these kingdoms:(B)
    Ararat,(C) Minni and Ashkenaz.(D)
Appoint a commander against her;
    send up horses like a swarm of locusts.(E)

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The sons of Gomer:

Ashkenaz,(A) Riphath and Togarmah.(B)

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The sons of Gomer:

Ashkenaz, Riphath[a] and Togarmah.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Chronicles 1:6 Many Hebrew manuscripts and Vulgate (see also Septuagint and Gen. 10:3); most Hebrew manuscripts Diphath

and on the seventeenth day of the seventh month(A) the ark came to rest on the mountains(B) of Ararat.(C)

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12 Lift up a banner(A) against the walls of Babylon!
    Reinforce the guard,
station the watchmen,(B)
    prepare an ambush!(C)
The Lord will carry out his purpose,(D)
    his decree against the people of Babylon.

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“Announce and proclaim(A) among the nations,
    lift up a banner(B) and proclaim it;
    keep nothing back, but say,
‘Babylon will be captured;(C)
    Bel(D) will be put to shame,(E)
    Marduk(F) filled with terror.
Her images will be put to shame
    and her idols(G) filled with terror.’

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14 They themselves will be enslaved(A) by many nations(B) and great kings; I will repay(C) them according to their deeds and the work of their hands.”

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The locusts looked like horses prepared for battle.(A) On their heads they wore something like crowns of gold, and their faces resembled human faces.(B) Their hair was like women’s hair, and their teeth were like lions’ teeth.(C) They had breastplates like breastplates of iron, and the sound of their wings was like the thundering of many horses and chariots rushing into battle.(D) 10 They had tails with stingers, like scorpions, and in their tails they had power to torment people for five months.(E) 11 They had as king over them the angel of the Abyss,(F) whose name in Hebrew(G) is Abaddon(H) and in Greek is Apollyon (that is, Destroyer).

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14 The Lord Almighty has sworn by himself:(A)
    I will surely fill you with troops, as with a swarm of locusts,(B)
    and they will shout(C) in triumph over you.

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41 “Look! An army is coming from the north;(A)
    a great nation and many kings
    are being stirred(B) up from the ends of the earth.(C)
42 They are armed with bows(D) and spears;
    they are cruel(E) and without mercy.(F)
They sound like the roaring sea(G)
    as they ride on their horses;
they come like men in battle formation
    to attack you, Daughter Babylon.(H)

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All you people of the world,(A)
    you who live on the earth,
when a banner(B) is raised on the mountains,
    you will see it,
and when a trumpet(C) sounds,
    you will hear it.

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Raise a banner(A) on a bare hilltop,
    shout to them;
beckon to them
    to enter the gates(B) of the nobles.
I have commanded those I prepared for battle;
    I have summoned my warriors(C) to carry out my wrath(D)
    those who rejoice(E) in my triumph.

Listen, a noise on the mountains,
    like that of a great multitude!(F)
Listen, an uproar(G) among the kingdoms,
    like nations massing together!
The Lord Almighty(H) is mustering(I)
    an army for war.
They come from faraway lands,
    from the ends of the heavens(J)
the Lord and the weapons(K) of his wrath(L)
    to destroy(M) the whole country.

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I will gather all the nations(A) to Jerusalem to fight against it;(B) the city will be captured, the houses ransacked, and the women raped.(C) Half of the city will go into exile, but the rest of the people will not be taken from the city.(D)

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15 There the fire(A) will consume you;
    the sword(B) will cut you down—
    they will devour you like a swarm of locusts.
Multiply like grasshoppers,
    multiply like locusts!(C)
16 You have increased the number of your merchants
    till they are more numerous than the stars in the sky,
but like locusts(D) they strip the land
    and then fly away.
17 Your guards are like locusts,(E)
    your officials like swarms of locusts
    that settle in the walls on a cold day—
but when the sun appears they fly away,
    and no one knows where.

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When a trumpet(A) sounds in a city,
    do not the people tremble?
When disaster(B) comes to a city,
    has not the Lord caused it?(C)

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    a day of darkness(A) and gloom,(B)
    a day of clouds(C) and blackness.(D)
Like dawn spreading across the mountains
    a large and mighty army(E) comes,
such as never was in ancient times(F)
    nor ever will be in ages to come.

Before them fire(G) devours,
    behind them a flame blazes.
Before them the land is like the garden of Eden,(H)
    behind them, a desert waste(I)
    nothing escapes them.

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23 They will chop down her forest,”
declares the Lord,
    “dense though it be.
They are more numerous than locusts,(A)
    they cannot be counted.

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Jerusalem Under Siege

“Flee for safety, people of Benjamin!
    Flee from Jerusalem!
Sound the trumpet(A) in Tekoa!(B)
    Raise the signal over Beth Hakkerem!(C)
For disaster looms out of the north,(D)
    even terrible destruction.

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37 One day, while he was worshiping in the temple of his god Nisrok, his sons Adrammelek(A) and Sharezer killed him with the sword,(B) and they escaped to the land of Ararat.(C) And Esarhaddon(D) his son succeeded him as king.

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They came up with their livestock and their tents like swarms of locusts.(A) It was impossible to count them or their camels;(B) they invaded the land to ravage it.

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