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# A declaration
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"This is what Yahweh declares" or "This is Yahweh's message"
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# about the desert by the sea
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This refers to the people who live in Babylon as being a desert, even though God has not made it into a desert yet. This event will certainly happen. Alternate translation: "about the people who live in a land that soon will be a desert" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-metonymy]] and [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-pastforfuture]])
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# Like stormwinds sweeping through the Negev
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Isaiah compares the army that will attack the people to a storm with strong winds. They will be quick and powerful. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-simile]])
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# from the wilderness
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Here "wilderness" refers to the wilderness of Judea. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-explicit]])
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# from a terrible land
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The army is from a people that cause great fear.
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