Isaiah 13:2 meaning and explanation

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

Isaiah 13:2, Berean Standard Bible

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God speaks through Isaiah in this oracle against Babylon, the superpower of the day. The command is issued to unnamed agents: raise a signal banner on a bare hill, shout, wave a hand, so that an assembled army may enter the gates of the nobles, meaning the gates of Babylon's rulers.

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