Hakim-hakim 10:14
Konteks10:14 Go and cry for help to the gods you have chosen! Let them deliver you from trouble!” 1
Yesaya 40:19
Konteks40:19 A craftsman casts 2 an idol;
a metalsmith overlays it with gold
and forges silver chains for it.
Yeremia 5:21
Konteks5:21 Tell them: ‘Hear this,
you foolish people who have no understanding,
who have eyes but do not discern,
who have ears but do not perceive: 3
Yeremia 14:22
Konteks14:22 Do any of the worthless idols 4 of the nations cause rain to fall?
Do the skies themselves send showers?
Is it not you, O Lord our God, who does this? 5
So we put our hopes in you 6
because you alone do all this.”
[10:14] 1 tn Heb “in your time of trouble.”
[40:19] 2 tn Heb “pours out”; KJV “melteth.”
[5:21] 3 tn Heb “they have eyes but they do not see, they have ears but they do not hear.”
[14:22] 4 tn The word הֶבֶל (hevel), often translated “vanities”, is a common pejorative epithet for idols or false gods. See already in 8:19 and 10:8.
[14:22] 5 tn Heb “Is it not you, O
[14:22] 6 tn The rhetorical negatives are balanced by a rhetorical positive.