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Isaiah 21:5
Arrange the table, lay out the carpet, eat and drink! Get up, you officers, smear oil on the shields!
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Jeremiah 51:11-12
“ Sharpen your arrows! Fill your quivers! The LORD will arouse a spirit of hostility in the kings of Media. For he intends to destroy Babylonia. For that is how the LORD will get his revenge– how he will get his revenge for the Babylonians’ destruction of his temple.Give the signal to attack Babylon’s wall! Bring more guards! Post them all around the city! Put men in ambush! For the LORD will do what he has planned. He will do what he said he would do to the people of Babylon.
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Nahum 3:14
Draw yourselves water for a siege! Strengthen your fortifications! Trample the mud and tread the clay! Make mud bricks to strengthen your walls!
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Nahum 2:1
( 2: 2) The watchmen of Nineveh shout:“ An enemy who will scatter you is marching out to attack you!”“ Guard the rampart! Watch the road! Prepare yourselves for battle! Muster your mighty strength!”
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Joel 3:9
Proclaim this among the nations:“ Prepare for a holy war! Call out the warriors! Let all these fighting men approach and attack!
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Isaiah 8:9-10
You will be broken, O nations; you will be shattered! Pay attention, all you distant lands of the earth! Get ready for battle, and you will be shattered! Get ready for battle, and you will be shattered!Devise your strategy, but it will be thwarted! Issue your orders, but they will not be executed! For God is with us!