3:2 “Look up at the hilltops and consider this. 1
You have had sex with other gods on every one of them. 2
You waited for those gods like a thief lying in wait in the desert. 3
You defiled the land by your wicked prostitution to other gods. 4
6:11 I am as full of anger as you are, Lord, 5
I am tired of trying to hold it in.”
The Lord answered, 6
“Vent it, then, 7 on the children who play in the street
and on the young men who are gathered together.
Husbands and wives are to be included, 8
as well as the old and those who are advanced in years.
1 tn Heb “and see.”
2 tn Heb “Where have you not been ravished?” The rhetorical question expects the answer “nowhere,” which suggests she has engaged in the worship of pagan gods on every one of the hilltops.
3 tn Heb “You sat for them [the lovers, i.e., the foreign gods] beside the road like an Arab in the desert.”
4 tn Heb “by your prostitution and your wickedness.” This is probably an example of hendiadys where, when two nouns are joined by “and,” one expresses the main idea and the other qualifies it.
5 tn Heb “I am full of the wrath of the
6 tn These words are not in the text but are implicit from the words that follow. They are supplied in the translation for clarity.
7 tn Heb “Pour it out.”
8 tn Heb “are to be captured.”