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# General Information:
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Yahweh is speaking.
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# I will spread my net over them
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This is a way to catch birds. Yahweh continues to compare the people of Israel to doves. When they go to Egypt or Assyria for help, Yahweh will punish them. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor]])
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# I will bring them down like the birds of the sky
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Yahweh speaks of the way he will judge Israel as if they were birds that he would catch in a net. Alternate translation: "I will hunt them like birds" or "I will catch them like a hunter catches birds" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-simile]])
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# in their flocking together
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This expression extends the metaphor of the birds.
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