38:13 that it might seize the corners of the earth, 1
and shake the wicked out of it?
11:12 He will lift a signal flag for the nations;
he will gather Israel’s dispersed people 2
and assemble Judah’s scattered people
from the four corners of the earth.
1 sn The poetic image is that darkness or night is like a blanket that covers the earth, and at dawn it is taken by the edges and shaken out. Since the wicked function under the cover of night, they are included in the shaking when the dawn comes up.
2 tn Or “the banished of Israel,” i.e., the exiles.