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# General Information:
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Yahweh continues to tell the other nations to attack Babylon.
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# the farmer who sows seed and the one who uses a sickle
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These people collectively represent all the farmers and harvesters of Babylon.
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# the one who uses a sickle at the time of harvest
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A "sickle" is a farm tool that people use to harvest grain. Together with the previous phrase, Yahweh is saying that all planting and harvesting will stop in Babylon.
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# Let each person turn back to his own people ... let them flee to their own land
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These two phrases mean basically the same thing. Together they strengthen the command for foreigners to flee from Babylon back to their own countries. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-doublet]])
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# from the oppressor's sword
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Here the word "sword" refers to the armies that will attack Babylon. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metonymy]])
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