Thine enemies roar in the midst of thy congregations; they set up their ensigns for signs.
Parallel translations
- WEB Your adversaries have roared in the middle of your assembly. They have set up their standards as signs.
- BSB Your foes have roared within Your meeting place; they have unfurled their banners as 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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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 hath cast off his altar, he hath abhorred his sanctuary, he hath given up into the hand of the enemy the walls of her palaces; they have made a noise in the house of the LORD, as in the day of a solemn feast.
- Matt 24:15When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understand:)
- Num 2:2Every man of the children of Israel shall pitch by his own standard, with the ensign of their father’s house: far off about the tabernacle of the congregation shall they pitch.
- Dan 6:27He delivereth and rescueth, and he worketh signs and wonders in heaven and in earth, who hath delivered Daniel from the power of the lions.
- 2 Chr 36:17Therefore he brought upon them the king of the Chaldees, who slew their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary, and had no compassion upon young man or maiden, old man, or him that stooped for age: he gave them all into his hand.
- Jer 6:1–5O ye children of Benjamin, gather yourselves to flee out of the midst of Jerusalem, and blow the trumpet in Tekoa, and set up a sign of fire in Bethhaccerem: for evil appeareth out of the north, and great destruction.
- Luke 13:1There were present at that season some that told him of the Galilaeans, whose blood Pilate had mingled with their sacrifices.
- Luke 21:20And when ye shall see Jerusalem compassed with armies, then know that the desolation thereof is nigh.
- Rev 13:6And he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God, to blaspheme his name, and his tabernacle, and them that dwell in heaven.
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