Hosea 9:15

9:15 Because of all their evil in Gilgal,

I hate them there.

On account of their evil deeds,

I will drive them out of my land. ¹ 

I will no longer love them;

all their rulers are rebels.

Hosea 9:2

9:2 Threshing floors and wine vats will not feed the people, ² 

and new wine only deceives them. ³ 

Kisah Para Rasul 18:27

18:27 When Apollos ⁴  wanted to cross over to Achaia, ⁵  the brothers encouraged ⁶  him ⁷  and wrote to the disciples to welcome him. When he arrived, he ⁸  assisted greatly those who had believed by grace,

Amos 8:3

8:3 The women singing in the temple ⁹  will wail in that day.”

The sovereign Lord is speaking.

“There will be many corpses littered everywhere! ¹⁰  Be quiet!”

Amos 9:1

9:1 I saw the sovereign One ¹¹  standing by the altar ¹²  and he said, “Strike the tops of the support pillars, ¹³  so the thresholds shake!

Knock them down on the heads of all the people, ¹⁴ 

and I will kill the survivors ¹⁵  with the sword.

No one will be able to run away; ¹⁶ 

no one will be able to escape. ¹⁷ 

Zakharia 11:1

The History and Future of Judah’s Wicked Kings

11:1 Open your gates, Lebanon,

so that the fire may consume your cedars. ¹⁸ 

[9:15]  ¹ tn Heb “out of my house” (so NAB, NASB, NIV, NRSV); TEV, NCV, NLT “my land.”

[9:2]  ² tn Heb “them”; the referent (the people) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[9:2]  ³ tn Heb “her” (so KJV, ASV). This is taken as a collective singular (so also most modern English versions).

[18:27]  ⁴ tn Grk “he”; the referent (Apollos) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[18:27]  ⁵ sn To cross over to Achaia. Achaia was organized by the Romans as a separate province in 27 b.c. and was located across the Aegean Sea from Ephesus. The city of Corinth was in Achaia.

[18:27]  ⁶ tn Grk “encouraging [him], the brothers wrote.” The participle προτρεψάμενοι (protreyamenoi) has been translated as a finite verb due to requirements of contemporary English style. This was the typical letter of commendation from the Ephesians to the Achaeans.

[18:27]  ⁷ tn The word “him” is not in the Greek text, but is implied. Direct objects were often omitted in Greek when clear from the context, but must be supplied for the modern English reader.

[18:27]  ⁸ tn Grk “who, when he arrived.” Because of the length and complexity of the Greek sentence, the relative pronoun (“who”) was replaced with the pronoun “he” and a new sentence begun in the translation.

[8:3]  ⁹ tn Or “palace” (NASB, NCV, TEV).

[8:3]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “Many corpses in every place he will throw out.” The subject of the verb is probably impersonal, though many emend the active (Hiphil) form to a passive (Hophal): “Many corpses in every place will be thrown out.”

[9:1]  ¹¹ tn Or “the Lord.” The Hebrew term translated “sovereign One” here is אֲדֹנָי (’adonay).

[9:1]  ¹² sn The altar is perhaps the altar at Bethel.

[9:1]  ¹³ tn Or “the capitals.” The Hebrew singular form is collective.

[9:1]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “cut them off on the head of all of them.” The translation assumes the objective suffix on the verb refers to the tops of the pillars and that the following prepositional phrase refers to the people standing beneath. Another option is to take this phrase as referring to the pillars, in which case one could translate, “Knock all the tops of the pillars off.”

[9:1]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “the remnant of them.” One could possibly translate, “every last one of them” (cf. NEB “to the last man”). This probably refers to those who survive the collapse of the temple, which may symbolize the northern kingdom.

[9:1]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “a fugitive belonging to them will not run away.”

[9:1]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “a survivor belonging to them will not escape.”

[11:1]  ¹⁸ sn In this poetic section, plants and animals provide the imagery for rulers, especially evil ones (cf. respectively Isa 10:33-34; Ezek 31:8; Amos 2:9; Nah 2:12).