Yehezkiel 26:20

26:20 then I will bring you down to bygone people, ¹  to be with those who descend to the pit. I will make you live in the lower parts of the earth, among ²  the primeval ruins, with those who descend to the pit, so that you will not be inhabited or stand ³  in the land of the living.

Yehezkiel 31:14

31:14 For this reason no watered trees will grow so tall; their tops will not reach into the clouds, nor will the well-watered ones grow that high. ⁴  For all of them have been appointed to die in the lower parts of the earth; ⁵  they will be among mere mortals, ⁶  with those who descend to the pit.

Yehezkiel 31:16

31:16 I made the nations shake at the sound of its fall, when I threw it down to Sheol, along with those who descend to the pit. ⁷  Then all the trees of Eden, the choicest and the best of Lebanon, all that were well-watered, were comforted in the earth below.

Mikha 1:8

1:8 For this reason I ⁸  will mourn and wail;

I will walk around barefoot ⁹  and without my outer garments. ¹⁰ 

I will howl ¹¹  like a wild dog, ¹² 

and screech ¹³  like an owl. ¹⁴ 

[26:20]  ¹ tn Heb “to the people of antiquity.”

[26:20]  ² tn Heb “like.” The translation assumes an emendation of the preposition כְּ (kÿ, “like”), to בְּ (bÿ, “in, among”).

[26:20]  ³ tn Heb “and I will place beauty.” This reading makes little sense; many, following the lead of the LXX, emend the text to read “nor will you stand” with the negative particle before the preceding verb understood by ellipsis; see L. C. Allen, Ezekiel (WBC), 2:73. D. I. Block (Ezekiel [NICOT], 2:47) offers another alternative, taking the apparent first person verb form as an archaic second feminine form and translating “nor radiate splendor.”

[31:14]  ⁴ tn Heb “and they will not stand to them in their height, all the drinkers of water.”

[31:14]  ⁵ tn Heb “for death, to the lower earth.”

[31:14]  ⁶ tn Heb “the sons of men.”

[31:16]  ⁷ sn For the expression “going down to the pit,” see Ezek 26:20; 32:18, 24, 29.

[1:8]  ⁸ tn The prophet is probably the speaker here.

[1:8]  ⁹ tn Or “stripped.” The precise meaning of this Hebrew word is unclear. It may refer to walking barefoot (see 2 Sam 15:30) or to partially stripping oneself (see Job 12:17-19).

[1:8]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “naked.” This probably does not refer to complete nudity, but to stripping off one’s outer garments as an outward sign of the destitution felt by the mourner.

[1:8]  ¹¹ tn Heb “I will make lamentation.”

[1:8]  ¹² tn Or “a jackal”; CEV “howling wolves.”

[1:8]  ¹³ tn Heb “[make] a mourning.”

[1:8]  ¹⁴ tn Or perhaps “ostrich” (cf. ASV, NAB, NASB, NRSV, NLT).