Isaiah 5:26-30
“And he will lift up an ensign to the nations from far, and will hiss unto them from the end of the earth: and, behold, they shall come with speed swiftly.”
King James Version
God summoning distant nations as instruments of judgment, fulfilled in Assyria and Babylon's swift campaigns against Israel.
Fulfillment References
Isaiah 10:5-6 Isaiah 13:4-5 Habakkuk 1:6
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