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# General Information:
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Jerusalem will defeat her enemies.
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# Let her be defiled
This can be translated in active form. AT: "Let us defile her" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-activepassive]])
# let our eyes gloat over Zion
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The eye is a synecdoche for the whole person. AT: "let us gloat over Zion" or "let us enjoy watching the invaders destroy Zion" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-synecdoche]])
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# for he has gathered them like sheaves for the threshing floor
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The farmer puts his sheaves on his threshing floor just before he threshes them. In a similar way, Yahweh will soon destroy the nations. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-simile]])