Isaiah 13:2 “Raise a banner on a barren hilltop; call aloud to them. Wave your hand…”

Isaiah 13:2

Raise a banner on a barren hilltop; call aloud to them. Wave your hand, that they may enter the gates of the nobles.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Lift ye up a banner upon the high mountain, exalt the voice unto them, shake the hand, that they may go into the gates of the nobles.

World English Bible

Set up a banner on the bare mountain! Lift up your voice to them! Wave your hand, that they may go into the gates of the nobles.

American Standard Version

Set ye up an ensign upon the bare mountain, lift up the voice unto them, wave the hand, that they may go into the gates of the nobles.

Geneva Bible 1599

Lift vp a standard vpon the hie mountaine: lift vp the voyce vnto them: wagge the hand, that they may goe into the gates of the nobles.

Darby Translation

Lift up a banner upon a bare mountain, raise the voice unto them, shake the hand, that they may enter the gates of the nobles.

Young's Literal Translation

'On a high mountain lift ye up an ensign, Raise the voice to them, wave the hand, And they go in to the openings of nobles.

Bible in Basic English

Put up a flag on a clear mountain-top, make a loud outcry to them, give directions with the hand, so that they may go into the doors of the great ones.

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Cross references

“Lift ye up”

Isaiah 5:26 Jeremiah 50:2 Isaiah 18:3 Isaiah 11:12 Jeremiah 51:27 Jeremiah 51:28

Isaiah 5:26 · BSB

He lifts a banner for the distant nations and whistles for those at the ends of the earth. Behold—how speedily and swiftly they come!

Jeremiah 50:2 · BSB

“Announce and declare to the nations; lift up a banner and proclaim it; hold nothing back when you say, ‘Babylon is captured; Bel is put to shame; Marduk is shattered, her images are disgraced, her idols are broken in pi…

Isaiah 18:3 · BSB

All you people of the world and dwellers of the earth, when a banner is raised on the mountains, you will see it; when a ram’s horn sounds, you will hear it.

Isaiah 11:12 · BSB

He will raise a banner for the nations and gather the exiles of Israel; He will collect the scattered of Judah from the four corners of the earth.

Jeremiah 51:27 · BSB

“Raise a banner in the land! Blow the ram’s horn among the nations! Prepare the nations against her. Summon the kingdoms against her— Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz. Appoint a captain against her; bring up horses like swarm…

Jeremiah 51:28 · BSB

Prepare the nations for battle against her— the kings of the Medes, their governors and all their officials, and all the lands they rule.

“upon the high”

Jeremiah 51:25

Jeremiah 51:25 · BSB

“Behold, I am against you, O destroying mountain, you who devastate the whole earth, declares the LORD. I will stretch out My hand against you; I will roll you over the cliffs and turn you into a charred mountain.

“shake”

Isaiah 10:32 Isaiah 11:15

Isaiah 10:32 · BSB

Yet today they will halt at Nob, shaking a fist at the mount of Daughter Zion, at the hill of Jerusalem.

Isaiah 11:15 · BSB

The LORD will devote to destruction the gulf of the Sea of Egypt; with a scorching wind He will sweep His hand over the Euphrates. He will split it into seven streams for men to cross with dry sandals.

“go into”

Jeremiah 51:58 Isaiah 45:1–3

Jeremiah 51:58 · BSB

This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Babylon’s thick walls will be leveled, and her high gates consumed by fire. So the labor of the people will be for nothing; the nations will exhaust themselves to fuel the flames.”

Isaiah 45:1–3 · BSB

This is what the LORD says to Cyrus His anointed, whose right hand I have grasped to subdue nations before him, to disarm kings, to open the doors before him, so that the gates will not be shut:

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

1This is the burden against Babylon that Isaiah son of Amoz received:

3I have commanded My sanctified ones; I have even summoned My warriors to execute My wrath and exult in My triumph.

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