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Isaiah 5:26

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

He raises a signal flag for the distant nations and whistles  for them from the ends of the earth. Look #– #how quickly and swiftly they come!

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I will whistle  and gather them because I have redeemed   them; they will be as numerous as they once were.


On that day the Lord will whistle  to flies at the farthest streams of the Nile and to bees in the land of Assyria.


All you inhabitants of the world and you who live on the earth, when a banner is raised on the mountains, look! When a ram’s horn sounds, listen!


The Lord will bring a nation from far away, from the ends of the earth,  to swoop down on you like an eagle,  a nation whose language you won’t understand,


He will lift up a banner for the nations and gather the dispersed of Israel; he will collect the scattered of Judah from the four corners of the earth.


‘My name will be great among the nations,  from the rising of the sun to its setting. Incense  and pure offerings will be presented in my name in every place because my name will be great among the nations,’  says the Lord of Armies.


Their horses are swifter  than leopards and fiercer  than wolves of the night. Their horsemen charge ahead; their horsemen come from distant lands. They fly like eagles, swooping to devour.


They attack as warriors attack; they scale walls as men of war do. Each goes on his own path, and they do not change their course.


Those who chased us were swifter than eagles in the sky; they relentlessly pursued us over the mountains and ambushed us in the wilderness.


Raise a signal flag  in the land; blow a ram’s horn among the nations; set apart the nations against her. Summon kingdoms against her – Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz. Appoint a marshal against her; bring up horses like a swarm  of locusts.


I am about to bring a nation from far away against you, house of Israel. This is the  Lord’s declaration. It is an established nation, an ancient nation, a nation whose language you do not know and whose speech you do not understand.


Look, he advances like clouds; his chariots are like a storm. His horses are swifter than eagles. Woe to us, for we are ruined!


Then the prophet Isaiah came to King Hezekiah and asked him, ‘What did these men say, and where did they come to you from? ’ Hezekiah replied, ‘They came to me from a distant country, from Babylon.’


You say, ‘No! We will escape on horses’ – therefore you will escape! – and, ‘We will ride on fast horses’ – but those who pursue you will be faster.


They are coming from a distant land, from the farthest horizon – the Lord and the weapons of his wrath – to destroy the whole country.


Lift up a banner on a barren mountain. Call out to them. Signal with your hand, and they will go through the gates of the nobles.


What will you do on the day of punishment when devastation comes from far away? Who will you run to for help? Where will you leave your wealth?


I have commanded my consecrated ones; yes, I have called my warriors, who celebrate my triumph, to execute my wrath.


Listen, a commotion on the mountains, like that of a mighty people! Listen, an uproar among the kingdoms, like nations being gathered together! The Lord of Armies is mobilising an army for war.


His rock  will pass away because of fear, and his officers will be afraid because of the signal flag. This is the Lord’s declaration #– #whose fire is in Zion and whose furnace is in Jerusalem.


‘ “This is what the Lord God says: Are you the one I spoke about in former times through my servants, the prophets of Israel, who for years prophesied in those times that I would bring you against them?





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