“For thus says the Lord God: ‘Bring up an assembly against them, give them up to trouble and plunder.
Parallel translations
- WEB “For thus says the Lord Yahweh: ‘I will bring up a company against them, and will give them to be tossed back and forth and robbed.
- KJV For thus saith the Lord GOD; I will bring up a company upon them, and will give them to be removed and spoiled.
- BSB This is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Bring a mob against them and consign them to terror and plunder.
- NASB “For this is what the Lord God says: ‘Bring up a contingent against them and turn them over to terror and plunder.
- NLT “Now this is what the Sovereign Lord says: Bring an army against them and hand them over to be terrorized and plundered.
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Quick answer
God will summon a hostile company to terrorize, plunder, and ravage the sisters. It announces the concrete agents of the coming judgment.
Overview
The Lord Yahweh declares He will 'bring up a company' to toss the people about and rob them, a vivid description of invasion and exile. God Himself directs these events, again showing that the nations are instruments in His hand. The certainty of His decree leaves no room for false hope apart from repentance.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 6
- Ezek 16:40They will also bring up a company against you, and they will stone you with stones, and thrust you through with their swords.
- Jer 15:4I will cause them to be tossed back and forth among all the kingdoms of the earth, because of Manasseh, the son of Hezekiah, king of Judah, for that which he did in Jerusalem.
- Jer 24:9I will even give them up to be tossed back and forth among all the kingdoms of the earth for evil; to be a reproach and a proverb, a taunt and a curse, in all places where I shall drive them.
- Ezek 23:22–26“Therefore, Oholibah, thus says the Lord Yahweh: ‘Behold, I will raise up your lovers against you, from whom your soul is alienated, and I will bring them against you on every side:
- Jer 34:17Therefore Yahweh says: “You have not listened to me, to proclaim liberty, every man to his brother, and every man to his neighbor. Behold, I proclaim to you a liberty,” says Yahweh, “to the sword, to the pestilence, and to the famine. I will make you be tossed back and forth among all the kingdoms of the earth.
- Jer 25:9behold, I will send and take all the families of the north,” says Yahweh, “and I will send to Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will bring them against this land, and against its inhabitants, and against all these nations around. I will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, and a hissing, and perpetual desolations.
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