60:6 Camel caravans will cover your roads, 3
young camels from Midian and Ephah.
All the merchants of Sheba 4 will come,
bringing gold and incense
and singing praises to the Lord. 5
1 tn Heb “went.”
2 tn The Hebrew term כִּכָּר (kikkar, “circle”) refers generally to something that is round. When used of metals it can refer to a disk-shaped weight made of the metal or to a standard unit of weight, generally regarded as a talent. Since the accepted weight for a talent of metal is about 75 pounds, this would have amounted to about 31,500 pounds of gold (cf. NCV); CEV, NLT “sixteen tons”; TEV “more than 14,000 kilogrammes.”
3 tn Heb “an abundance of camels will cover you.”
4 tn Heb “all of them, from Sheba.”
5 tn Heb “and they will announce the praises of the Lord.”