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# the farmer who sows seed and the one who uses a sickle
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These people represent all the farmers and harvesters of Babylon. Yahweh continues to tell the other nations to attack Babylon.
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# the one who uses a sickle at the time of harvest
A "sickle" is a farm tool that people use to harvest grain. Together with the previous phrase, Yahweh is saying that all planting and harvesting will stop in Babylon.
# Let each person turn back to his own people ... let them flee to their own land
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These two phrases strengthen the command for foreigners to flee from Babylon back to their own countries.
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# from the oppressor's sword
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This refers to the armies that will attack Babylon.