Imamat 26:25
26:25 I will bring on you an avenging sword, a covenant vengeance.
1 Although
2 you will gather together into your cities, I will send pestilence among you and you will be given into enemy hands.
3
Yeremia 12:12
12:12 A destructive army 4 will come marching
over the hilltops in the desert.
For the Lord will use them as his destructive weapon 5
against 6 everyone from one end of the land to the other.
No one will be safe. 7
1 tn Heb “vengeance of covenant”; cf. NAB “the avenger of my covenant.”
2 tn Heb “and.” The Hebrew conjunction ו (vav, “and”) has a concessive force in this context.
3 tn Heb “in hand of enemy,” but Tg. Ps.-J. and Tg. Neof. have “in the hands of your enemies” (J. E. Hartley, Leviticus [WBC], 454).
4 tn Heb “destroyers.”
5 tn Heb “It is the Lord’s consuming sword.”
6 tn Heb “For a sword of the Lord will devour.” The sword is often symbolic for destructive forces of all kinds. Here and in Isa 34:6; Jer 47:6 it is symbolic of the enemy armies that the Lord uses to carry out destructive punishment against his enemies, hence the translation “his destructive weapon.” A similar figure is use in Isa 10:5 where the figure is more clearly identified; Assyria is the rod/club that the Lord will use to discipline unfaithful Israel.
7 tn Heb “There is no peace to all flesh.”