⁴ Your foes roared^(A) in the place where you met with us;
    they set up their standards^(B) as signs.

²⁶ He lifts up a banner^(A) for the distant nations,
    he whistles^(B) for those at the ends of the earth.^(C)
Here they come,
    swiftly and speedily!

¹² He will raise a banner^(A) for the nations
    and gather^(B) the exiles of Israel;^(C)
he will assemble the scattered people^(D) of Judah
    from the four quarters of the earth.^(E)

³ 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.

¹⁷ A thousand will flee
    at the threat of one;
at the threat of five^(A)
    you will all flee^(B) away,
till you are left^(C)
    like a flagstaff on a mountaintop,
    like a banner^(D) on a hill.”

⁹ Their stronghold^(A) will fall because of terror;
    at the sight of the battle standard^(B) their commanders will panic,^(C)”
declares the Lord,
    whose fire^(D) is in Zion,
    whose furnace^(E) is in Jerusalem.