They will be gathered together like prisoners in a pit. They will be confined to a dungeon and punished after many days.
Parallel translations
- WEB They shall be gathered together, as prisoners are gathered in the pit, and shall be shut up in the prison; and after many days shall they be visited.
- KJV And they shall be gathered together, as prisoners are gathered in the pit, and shall be shut up in the prison, and after many days shall they be visited.
- NKJV They will be gathered together, As prisoners are gathered in the pit, And will be shut up in the prison; After many days they will be punished.
- NASB They will be gathered together Like prisoners in the dungeon, And will be confined in prison; And after many days they will be punished.
- NLT They will be rounded up and put in prison. They will be shut up in prison and will finally be punished.
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Quick answer
These powers will be gathered like prisoners into a pit and shut up, to be dealt with after many days. Judgment is certain though its final execution is delayed.
Overview
The rebellious hosts and kings are imprisoned, awaiting a later visitation. The delay shows God's patience and the appointed timing of full judgment. It anticipates the New Testament hope that hostile powers, though restrained now, will face final reckoning.
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- Zech 9:11As for you, because of the blood of My covenant, I will release your prisoners from the waterless pit.
- Jer 38:6–13So they took Jeremiah and dropped him into the cistern of Malchiah, the king’s son, which was in the courtyard of the guard. They lowered Jeremiah with ropes into the cistern, which had no water but only mud, and Jeremiah sank down into the mud.
- Isa 42:22But this is a people plundered and looted, all trapped in caves or imprisoned in dungeons. They have become plunder with no one to rescue them, and loot with no one to say, “Send them back!”
- Josh 10:22–26Then Joshua said, “Open the mouth of the cave and bring those five kings out to me.”
- Isa 10:4Nothing will remain but to crouch among the captives or fall among the slain. Despite all this, His anger is not turned away; His hand is still upraised.
- Josh 10:16–17Now the five kings had fled and hidden in the cave at Makkedah.
- Isa 24:17Terror and pit and snare await you, O dweller of the earth.
- Isa 2:19Men will flee to caves in the rocks and holes in the ground, away from the terror of the LORD and from the splendor of His majesty, when He rises to shake the earth.
- Ezek 38:8After a long time you will be summoned. In the latter years you will enter a land that has recovered from war, whose people were gathered from many nations to the mountains of Israel, which had long been desolate. They had been brought out from the nations, and all now dwell securely.
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