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# Prepare your slaughter for his children
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This can be reworded so that the abstract noun "slaughter" is expressed with the verb "kill." AT: "Get ready to kill the children of the king of Babylon" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-abstractnouns]])
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# for the iniquity of their ancestors
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This can be reworded so that the abstract noun "iniquity" is expressed as the verb "sinned greatly." AT: "because their forefathers have sinned greatly" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-abstractnouns]])
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# so they will not rise up
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Here "rise up" represents either becoming powerful or attacking. AT: "so they will not become powerful" or "so they will not attack" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metonymy]])
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# possess the earth
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This represents taking control of the people on the earth, in this case by conquering them. AT: "take control of the peoples on the earth" or "conquer the peoples on the earth" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor]])
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# fill the whole world with cities
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This represents causing the world to have many cities on it. AT: "build cities all over the world" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor]])
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# I will rise up against them
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This means that God will do something against them. The word "them" refers to the people of Babylon. AT: "I will attack them" or "I will send people to attack them" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metonymy]])
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# this is the declaration of Yahweh of hosts
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Yahweh speaks of himself by name to express the certainty of what he is declaring. AT: "this is what Yahweh of hosts has declared" or "this is what I, Yahweh of hosts, have declared" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-123person]])
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# Yahweh of hosts
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See how you translated this in [Isaiah 1:9](../01/09.md).
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# I will cut off from Babylon name, descendant, and posterity
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"Cut off" represents destroying. Here "Babylon" refers to the people of Babylon. Also, "name" refers either to Babylon's fame or to Babylon itself as a kingdom. AT: "I will destroy Babylon, along with the people's children and grandchildren" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metonymy]])
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# I will also make her
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The word "her" refers to the city of Babylon. Cities were often spoken of as if they were women. AT: "I will also make it" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-personification]])
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# a possession of owls
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This represents wild animals living in the city because there are no people there. AT: "a place where owls live" or "a place where wild animals live" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor]])
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# into pools of water
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Causing there to be swamps or ponds of stagnant water where the city was is spoken of as making the city into those things. AT: "into a place where there are stagnant ponds" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor]])
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# I will sweep her with the broom of destruction
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This represents completely destroying Babylon and making it no longer exist as if it is worthless dirt that people sweep away. AT: "I will destroy it completely, like sweeping it away with a broom" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor]])
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# translationWords
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* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/kt/children]]
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* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/kt/iniquity]]
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* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/other/earth]]
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* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/kt/world]]
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* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/other/declare]]
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* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/kt/yahwehofhosts]]
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* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/other/cutoff]]
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* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/other/babylon]]
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* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/kt/name]]
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* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/other/descendant]] |