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# Though they go into captivity, driven by their enemies before them
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This can be stated in active form. Alternate translation: "Though enemies capture them and force them to go to a foreign land" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-activepassive]])
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# there will I give orders to the sword, and it will kill them
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Here "sword" represents their enemies. Alternate translation: "there I will cause their enemies to kill them" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-metonymy]])
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# I will keep my eyes on them for harm and not for good
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Here "eyes" represents seeing. The phrase "keep my eyes on them" is an idiom that means to watch closely. Alternate translation: "I will watch closely and make sure only bad things happen to them and not good things" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-metonymy]] and [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-idiom]])
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