Mazmur 35:21

35:21 They are ready to devour me; ¹ 

they say, “Aha! Aha! We’ve got you!” ² 

Yehezkiel 26:2

26:2 “Son of man, because Tyre ³  has said about Jerusalem, ⁴  ‘Aha, the gateway of the peoples is broken; it has swung open to me. I will become rich, ⁵  now that she ⁶  has been destroyed,’

Yehezkiel 36:2

36:2 This is what the sovereign Lord says: The enemy has spoken against you, saying “Aha!” and, “The ancient heights ⁷  have become our property!”’

[35:21]  ¹ tn Heb “and they cause their mouth to be wide against me.” The prefixed verbal form with vav (ו) consecutive here carries on the generalizing mood of the previous verse. For other examples of this use of the prefixed verbal form with vav consecutive, see GKC 329 §111.t.

[35:21]  ² tn Heb “our eye sees.” Apparently this is an idiom meaning to “look in triumph” or “gloat over” (see Ps 54:7).

[26:2]  ³ sn Tyre was located on the Mediterranean coast north of Israel.

[26:2]  ⁴ map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

[26:2]  ⁵ tn Heb “I will be filled.”

[26:2]  ⁶ sn That is, Jerusalem.

[36:2]  ⁷ tn Or “high places.”