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# So look
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This adds emphasis to what follows. Alternate translation: "Look and listen"
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# days are coming ... when I will
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Future time is spoken of as if the "days are coming." See how you translated this in [Jeremiah 7:32](../07/32.md). Alternate translation: "in the future ... I will" or "there will be a time ... when I will" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor]])
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# this is Yahweh's declaration
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Yahweh speaks of himself by name to express the certainty of what he is declaring. See how you translated this in [Jeremiah 1:8](../01/08.md). Alternate translation: "this is what Yahweh has declared" or "this is what I, Yahweh, have declared" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-123person]])
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# when I will sound the signal for battle
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Yahweh causing an army to attack is spoken of as if he would sound the signal for the battle to start. Alternate translation: "when I will cause the enemy army to sound the signal for battle" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor]])
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# its villages will be set on fire
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This can be stated in active form. Alternate translation: "the enemy army will burn their villages"
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# For Israel will possess those who possessed him
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Here "Israel" represents the people of Israel. "Those" refers to people of Ammon, who represent the land that they took from Israel. Alternate translation: "Then the people of Israel will again possess the land that the people of Ammon took away from them" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metonymy]])
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