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# General Information:
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Yahweh presents the imagery of the threshing floor ([Micah 4:12](../04/12.md)).
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# Arise and thresh, daughter of Zion ... your horn ... your hooves ... You will crush
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All instances of "your" and "you," as well as the commands, refer to the "daughter of Zion" and so are singular and feminine. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-you]])
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# Arise and thresh, daughter of Zion, for I will make your horn to be iron, and I will make your hooves to be bronze
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Yahweh speaks of the people of Zion as if they were strong oxen about to thresh wheat and their enemies were the wheat. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor]] and [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/translate-unknown]])
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# I will make your horn to be iron, and I will make your hooves to be bronze
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If your reader is not familiar with oxen or iron or bronze, you can remove the metaphor. Alternate translation: "for I will make you able to defeat and destroy every enemy" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor]] and [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/translate-unknown]])
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# their unjust wealth
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"the wealth they got by acting unjustly" or "the things they stole from other people"
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# their wealth
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The abstract noun "wealth" can be translated as a verb. Alternate translation: "the things that they own" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-abstractnouns]])
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