Set you up a standard in the land, blow the trumpet among the nations, prepare the nations against her, call together against her the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz; appoint a captain against her; cause the horses to come up like the bristling locusts.
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Prepare. Literally, "sanctify. "(Haydock)
Call together all nations to fight against Babylon. (Worthington)
Many religious ceremonies were used.
Ararat, where the ark rested, (Genesis viii. 4.) near the Araxes, (St. Jerome, in Isaias xxxvii.) or in the Gordyean mountains, in Armenia, where the Menni dwelt.
Ascenez, or Ascantes, (Calmet) near the Tanais. (Pliny, vi. 7.)
Taphsar, "the prince "Nahum iii. 17. (Pagnin) "Warriors. "(Chaldean) "Machines "(Septuagint)
Caterpillar, or "locust "(bruchum. Haydock) which resembles more a body of cavalry. (Calmet)
Septuagint, "Push forward the cavalry against her, as a multitude of locusts. "(Haydock)
