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General Information:
This is the end of the message from Yahweh, spoken through the prophet Isaiah to King Hezekiah. It uses parallelism throughout. (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-parallelism)
nor shoot an arrow here
"Arrow" is metonymy representing all tools of warfare and destruction. Alternate translation: "nor do any fighting here" (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metonymy)
or build up a siege ramp against it
"and they will not even build up high mounds of earth against the city wall to enable them to attack the city"