“‘Be prepared and get yourself ready, you and your whole assembly that has been mobilized around you; you will be their guard. After a long time you will be summoned. In the last years you will enter a land that has been restored from war[a] and regathered from many peoples to the mountains of Israel, which had long been a ruin.(A) They were brought out from the peoples, and all of them now live securely. You, all of your troops, and many peoples with you will advance, coming like a thunderstorm; you will be like a cloud covering the land.

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Footnotes

  1. 38:8 Lit from the sword

“‘Get ready; be prepared,(A) you and all the hordes gathered about you, and take command of them. After many days(B) you will be called to arms. In future years you will invade a land that has recovered from war, whose people were gathered from many nations(C) to the mountains of Israel, which had long been desolate. They had been brought out from the nations, and now all of them live in safety.(D) You and all your troops and the many nations with you will go up, advancing like a storm;(E) you will be like a cloud(F) covering the land.(G)

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