Your foes have roared within Your meeting place; they have unfurled their banners as signs,
Parallel translations
- WEB Your adversaries have roared in the middle of your assembly. They have set up their standards as signs.
- KJV Thine enemies roar in the midst of thy congregations; they set up their ensigns for signs.
- NKJV Your enemies roar in the midst of Your meeting place; They set up their banners for signs.
- NASB Your adversaries have roared in the midst of Your meeting place; They have set up their own signs as signs.
- NLT There your enemies shouted their victorious battle cries; there they set up their battle standards.
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Quick answer
The enemies roared in triumph within God's assembly and set up their own standards as signs of conquest.
Overview
Pagan foes desecrated the sacred place, raising their banners where God was worshiped. Their arrogant intrusion mocked the Lord himself. This profanation deepens the lament and appeals to God's honor, for the dishonoring of his sanctuary is ultimately an affront against him.
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- Lam 2:7The Lord has rejected His altar; He has abandoned His sanctuary; He has delivered the walls of her palaces into the hand of the enemy. They have raised a shout in the house of the LORD as on the day of an appointed feast.
- Matt 24:15So when you see standing in the holy place ‘the abomination of desolation,’ described by the prophet Daniel (let the reader understand),
- Num 2:2“The Israelites are to camp around the Tent of Meeting at a distance from it, each man under his standard, with the banners of his family.
- Dan 6:27He delivers and rescues; He performs signs and wonders in the heavens and on the earth, for He has rescued Daniel from the power of the lions.”
- 2 Chr 36:17So He brought up against them the king of the Chaldeans, who put their young men to the sword in the sanctuary, sparing neither young men nor young women, neither elderly nor infirm. God gave them all into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar,
- Jer 6:1–5“Run for cover, O sons of Benjamin; flee from Jerusalem! Sound the ram’s horn in Tekoa; send up a signal over Beth-haccherem, for disaster looms from the north, even great destruction.
- Luke 13:1At that time some of those present told Jesus about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mixed with their sacrifices.
- Luke 21:20But when you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, you will know that her desolation is near.
- Rev 13:6And the beast opened its mouth to speak blasphemies against God and to slander His name and His tabernacle—those who dwell in heaven.
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