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# General Information:
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Here Yahweh is saying what the people of Judah will say when he destroys the land.
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# For death has come through our windows ... young men in the city squares
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The people of Judah will compare death to a person who can climb in windows to attack the people inside and attacks people in the palaces, streets, and city squares. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-personification]])
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# palaces
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fancy houses where kings live. Death will come to rich and poor alike.
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# city squares
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marketplaces
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# This is Yahweh's declaration
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Yahweh speaks of himself by name to express the certainty of what he is declaring. See how you translated this in [Jeremiah 1:8](../01/07.md). AT: "This is what Yahweh has declared" or "This is what I, Yahweh, have declared" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-123person]])
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# the corpses of men will fall like dung ... like grain stalks after the reapers
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These two phrases mean the same thing and emphasize the large number dead bodies. AT: "dead bodies will fall all over the place" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-parallelism]])
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# corpses of men will fall like dung in the fields
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This describes the great number of people who will die, by comparing their bodies to dung that falls in the fields. AT: "dead bodies will drop everywhere like animal dung falls all over the fields" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-simile]])
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# like grain stalks after the reapers
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This describes the great number of people who will die, by comparing their bodies to cut stalks of grain. AT: "like stalks of grain fall everywhere after the farmers cut them down" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-simile]])
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# there will be no one to gather them
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"there will be nobody to gather the dead bodies"
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# translationWords
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* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/other/death]]
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* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/other/dung]]
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* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/other/grain]] |