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Isaiah 13:4

Listen, a tumult on the mountains, like that of a great multitude! Listen, an uproar among the kingdoms, like nations gathered together! The LORD of Hosts is mobilizing an army for war.

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ASV

The noise of a multitude in the mountains, as of a great people! the noise of a tumult of the kingdoms of the nations gathered together! Jehovah of hosts is mustering the host for the battle.

KJV

The noise of a multitude in the mountains, like as of a great people; a tumultuous noise of the kingdoms of nations gathered together: the Lord of hosts mustereth the host of the battle.

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OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
ק֥וֹלKol[the] sound ofH6963 →
הָמ֛וֹןha.Mona tumultH1995 →
בֶּֽהָרִ֖יםbe.ha.Rim[is] on the mountainsH2022 →
דְּמ֣וּתde.Mut[the] likeness ofH1823 →
עַם־'am-a peopleH5971 →
רָ֑בRavnumerousH7227 →
ק֠וֹלKol[the] sound ofH6963 →
שְׁא֞וֹןshe.'onan uproar ofH7588 →
מַמְלְכ֤וֹתmam.le.Khotkingdoms ofH4467 →
גּוֹיִם֙go.YimnationsH1471 →
נֶֽאֱסָפִ֔יםne.'e.sa.FimgatheringH622 →
יְהוָ֣הYah.wehYahwehH3068 →
צְבָא֔וֹתtze.va.'otof hostsH6635 →
מְפַקֵּ֖דme.fa.Ked[is] musteringH6485 →
צְבָ֥אtze.Va'an army ofH6635 →
מִלְחָמָֽה׃mil.cha.MahbattleH4421 →

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Joel 3:14Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision! For the Day of the LORD is near in the valley of decision.1 Chronicles 14:15As soon as you hear the sound of marching in the tops of the balsam trees, move out to battle, because this will mean that God has marched out before you to strike the camp of the Philistines.”Jeremiah 21:4this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘I will turn against you the weapons of war in your hands, with which you are fighting the king of Babylon and the Chaldeans who besiege you outside the wall, and I will assemble their forces in the center of this city.Joel 2:11The LORD raises His voice in the presence of His army. Indeed, His camp is very large, for mighty are those who obey His command. For the Day of the LORD is great and very dreadful. Who can endure it?Ezekiel 38:3–23and declare that this is what the Lord GOD says: Behold, I am against you, O Gog, chief prince of Meshech and Tubal.Revelation 19:11–21Then I saw heaven standing open, and there before me was a white horse. And its rider is called Faithful and True. With righteousness He judges and wages war.Joel 2:25I will repay you for the years eaten by locusts—the swarming locust, the young locust, the destroying locust, and the devouring locust—My great army that I sent against you.Joel 2:1–11Blow the ram’s horn in Zion; sound the alarm on My holy mountain! Let all who dwell in the land tremble, for the Day of the LORD is coming; indeed, it is near—Jeremiah 50:2–3“Announce and declare to the nations; lift up a banner and proclaim it; hold nothing back when you say, ‘Babylon is captured; Bel is put to shame; Marduk is shattered, her images are disgraced, her idols are broken in pieces.’Jeremiah 51:27–28“Raise a banner in the land! Blow the ram’s horn among the nations! Prepare the nations against her. Summon the kingdoms against her—Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz. Appoint a captain against her; bring up horses like swarming locusts.Zechariah 14:13–14On that day a great panic from the LORD will come upon them, so that each will seize the hand of another, and the hand of one will rise against the other.Zechariah 14:1–3Behold, a day of the LORD is coming when your plunder will be divided in your presence.Isaiah 45:1–2This is what the LORD says to Cyrus His anointed, whose right hand I have grasped to subdue nations before him, to disarm kings, to open the doors before him, so that the gates will not be shut:Isaiah 22:1–9This is the burden against the Valley of Vision: What ails you now, that you have all gone up to the rooftops,Revelation 9:7–19And the locusts looked like horses prepared for battle, with something like crowns of gold on their heads, and faces like the faces of men.Jeremiah 51:6–25Flee from Babylon! Escape with your lives! Do not be destroyed in her punishment. For this is the time of the LORD’s vengeance; He will pay her what she deserves.Isaiah 10:5–6Woe to Assyria, the rod of My anger; the staff in their hands is My wrath.Revelation 18:8Therefore her plagues will come in one day—death and grief and famine—and she will be consumed by fire, for mighty is the Lord God who judges her.”

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