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# General Information:
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Yahweh continues speaking about his servant.
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# my servant will sprinkle many nations
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The servant causing the people of the nations to be acceptable to Yahweh is spoken of as if the servant were a priest who sprinkles the blood of a sacrifice to make someone or something acceptable to Yahweh. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor]])
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# will sprinkle
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The Hebrew word translated "sprinkle" here can also be translated as "surprise" or "startle," which some versions of the Bible do.
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# many nations
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Here "nations" represents the people of the nations. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metonymy]])
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# kings will shut their mouths
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The phrase "shut their mouths" is an idiom. Alternate translation: "kings will stop talking" or "kings will be silent" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-idiom]])
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# that which they had not been told
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This can be stated in active form. Alternate translation: "that which no one had told them" or "something no one had told them" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-activepassive]])
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