* **Listen before me in silence** - Here "me" refers to God.
* **you coastlands** - This refers to the people who live on the islands and in the lands bordering or beyond the Mediterranean Sea. (See: [[:en:ta:vol2:translate:figs_metonymy]] and [[:en:ta:vol2:translate:figs_apostrophe]])
* **renew their strength** - "regain their courage"
* **let them come near and speak; let us come near together to argue a dispute** - “then let them come near so they may speak and reason with me” (See: [[:en:ta:vol2:translate:figs_parallelism]])
* **Who stirred up this one from the east? Who calls him in good order to his service?** - Yahweh uses questions to emphasize he is in control of all nations. AT: “I am the one who called this powerful ruler from the east and put him in my good service” (See: [[:en:ta:vol1:translate:figs_rquestion]] and [[:en:ta:vol2:translate:figs_parallelism]])
* **He hands nations over to him** - "I give the nations over to the one from the east"
* **he makes them as the dust with his sword, as wind-blown stubble with his bow** - blown stubble with his bow** - This means the man from the east will easily destroy the people and kings of the nations. (See: [[en:ta:vol1:translate:figs_simile]] and [[:en:ta:vol2:translate:figs_hyperbole]])
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