Imamat 26:14-33
Konteks26:14 “‘If, however, 1 you do not obey me and keep 2 all these commandments – 26:15 if you reject my statutes and abhor my regulations so that you do not keep 3 all my commandments and you break my covenant – 26:16 I for my part 4 will do this to you: I will inflict horror on you, consumption and fever, which diminish eyesight and drain away the vitality of life. 5 You will sow your seed in vain because 6 your enemies will eat it. 7 26:17 I will set my face against you. You will be struck down before your enemies, those who hate you will rule over you, and you will flee when there is no one pursuing you.
26:18 “‘If, in spite of all these things, 8 you do not obey me, I will discipline you seven times more on account of your sins. 9 26:19 I will break your strong pride and make your sky like iron and your land like bronze. 26:20 Your strength will be used up in vain, your land will not give its yield, and the trees of the land 10 will not produce their fruit.
26:21 “‘If you walk in hostility against me 11 and are not willing to obey me, I will increase your affliction 12 seven times according to your sins. 26:22 I will send the wild animals 13 against you and they will bereave you of your children, 14 annihilate your cattle, and diminish your population 15 so that your roads will become deserted.
26:23 “‘If in spite of these things 16 you do not allow yourselves to be disciplined and you walk in hostility against me, 17 26:24 I myself will also walk in hostility against you and strike you 18 seven times on account of your sins. 26:25 I will bring on you an avenging sword, a covenant vengeance. 19 Although 20 you will gather together into your cities, I will send pestilence among you and you will be given into enemy hands. 21 26:26 When I break off your supply of bread, 22 ten women will bake your bread in one oven; they will ration your bread by weight, 23 and you will eat and not be satisfied.
26:27 “‘If in spite of this 24 you do not obey me but walk in hostility against me, 25 26:28 I will walk in hostile rage against you 26 and I myself will also discipline you seven times on account of your sins. 26:29 You will eat the flesh of your sons and the flesh of your daughters. 27 26:30 I will destroy your high places and cut down your incense altars, 28 and I will stack your dead bodies on top of the lifeless bodies of your idols. 29 I will abhor you. 30 26:31 I will lay your cities waste 31 and make your sanctuaries desolate, and I will refuse to smell your soothing aromas. 26:32 I myself will make the land desolate and your enemies who live in it will be appalled. 26:33 I will scatter you among the nations and unsheathe the sword 32 after you, so your land will become desolate and your cities will become a waste.
Ulangan 28:15-68
Konteks28:15 “But if you ignore 33 the Lord your God and are not careful to keep all his commandments and statutes I am giving you today, then all these curses will come upon you in full force: 34 28:16 You will be cursed in the city and cursed in the field. 28:17 Your basket and your mixing bowl will be cursed. 28:18 Your children 35 will be cursed, as well as the produce of your soil, the calves of your herds, and the lambs of your flocks. 28:19 You will be cursed when you come in and cursed when you go out. 36
28:20 “The Lord will send on you a curse, confusing you and opposing you 37 in everything you undertake 38 until you are destroyed and quickly perish because of the evil of your deeds, in that you have forsaken me. 39 28:21 The Lord will plague you with deadly diseases 40 until he has completely removed you from the land you are about to possess. 28:22 He 41 will afflict you with weakness, 42 fever, inflammation, infection, 43 sword, 44 blight, and mildew; these will attack you until you perish. 28:23 The 45 sky 46 above your heads will be bronze and the earth beneath you iron. 28:24 The Lord will make the rain of your land powder and dust; it will come down on you from the sky until you are destroyed.
28:25 “The Lord will allow you to be struck down before your enemies; you will attack them from one direction but flee from them in seven directions and will become an object of terror 47 to all the kingdoms of the earth. 28:26 Your carcasses will be food for every bird of the sky and wild animal of the earth, and there will be no one to chase them off. 28:27 The Lord will afflict you with the boils of Egypt and with tumors, eczema, and scabies, all of which cannot be healed. 28:28 The Lord will also subject you to madness, blindness, and confusion of mind. 48 28:29 You will feel your way along at noon like the blind person does in darkness and you will not succeed in anything you do; 49 you will be constantly oppressed and continually robbed, with no one to save you. 28:30 You will be engaged to a woman and another man will rape 50 her. You will build a house but not live in it. You will plant a vineyard but not even begin to use it. 28:31 Your ox will be slaughtered before your very eyes but you will not eat of it. Your donkey will be stolen from you as you watch and will not be returned to you. Your flock of sheep will be given to your enemies and there will be no one to save you. 28:32 Your sons and daughters will be given to another people while you look on in vain all day, and you will be powerless to do anything about it. 51 28:33 As for the produce of your land and all your labor, a people you do not know will consume it, and you will be nothing but oppressed and crushed for the rest of your lives. 28:34 You will go insane from seeing all this. 28:35 The Lord will afflict you in your knees and on your legs with painful, incurable boils – from the soles of your feet to the top of your head. 28:36 The Lord will force you and your king 52 whom you will appoint over you to go away to a people whom you and your ancestors have not known, and you will serve other gods of wood and stone there. 28:37 You will become an occasion of horror, a proverb, and an object of ridicule to all the peoples to whom the Lord will drive you.
28:38 “You will take much seed to the field but gather little harvest, because locusts will consume it. 28:39 You will plant vineyards and cultivate them, but you will not drink wine or gather in grapes, because worms will eat them. 28:40 You will have olive trees throughout your territory but you will not anoint yourself with olive oil, because the olives will drop off the trees while still unripe. 53 28:41 You will bear sons and daughters but not keep them, because they will be taken into captivity. 28:42 Whirring locusts 54 will take over every tree and all the produce of your soil. 28:43 The foreigners 55 who reside among you will become higher and higher over you and you will become lower and lower. 28:44 They will lend to you but you will not lend to them; they will become the head and you will become the tail!
28:45 All these curses will fall on you, pursuing and overtaking you until you are destroyed, because you would not obey the Lord your God by keeping his commandments and statutes that he has given 56 you. 28:46 These curses 57 will be a perpetual sign and wonder with reference to you and your descendants. 58
28:47 “Because you have not served the Lord your God joyfully and wholeheartedly with the abundance of everything you have, 28:48 instead in hunger, thirst, nakedness, and poverty 59 you will serve your enemies whom the Lord will send against you. They 60 will place an iron yoke on your neck until they have destroyed you. 28:49 The Lord will raise up a distant nation against you, one from the other side of the earth 61 as the eagle flies, 62 a nation whose language you will not understand, 28:50 a nation of stern appearance that will have no regard for the elderly or pity for the young. 28:51 They 63 will devour the offspring of your livestock and the produce of your soil until you are destroyed. They will not leave you with any grain, new wine, olive oil, calves of your herds, 64 or lambs of your flocks 65 until they have destroyed you. 28:52 They will besiege all of your villages 66 until all of your high and fortified walls collapse – those in which you put your confidence throughout the land. They will besiege all your villages throughout the land the Lord your God has given you. 28:53 You will then eat your own offspring, 67 the flesh of the sons and daughters the Lord your God has given you, because of the severity of the siege 68 by which your enemies will constrict you. 28:54 The man among you who is by nature tender and sensitive will turn against his brother, his beloved wife, and his remaining children. 28:55 He will withhold from all of them his children’s flesh that he is eating (since there is nothing else left), because of the severity of the siege by which your enemy will constrict 69 you in your villages. 28:56 Likewise, the most 70 tender and delicate of your women, who would never think of putting even the sole of her foot on the ground because of her daintiness, 71 will turn against her beloved husband, her sons and daughters, 28:57 and will secretly eat her afterbirth 72 and her newborn children 73 (since she has nothing else), 74 because of the severity of the siege by which your enemy will constrict you in your villages.
28:58 “If you refuse to obey 75 all the words of this law, the things written in this scroll, and refuse to fear this glorious and awesome name, the Lord your God, 28:59 then the Lord will increase your punishments and those of your descendants – great and long-lasting afflictions and severe, enduring illnesses. 28:60 He will infect you with all the diseases of Egypt 76 that you dreaded, and they will persistently afflict you. 77 28:61 Moreover, the Lord will bring upon you every kind of sickness and plague not mentioned in this scroll of commandments, 78 until you have perished. 28:62 There will be very few of you left, though at one time you were as numerous as the stars in the sky, 79 because you will have disobeyed 80 the Lord your God. 28:63 This is what will happen: Just as the Lord delighted to do good for you and make you numerous, he 81 will take delight in destroying and decimating you. You will be uprooted from the land you are about to possess. 28:64 The Lord will scatter you among all nations, from one end of the earth to the other. There you will worship other gods that neither you nor your ancestors have known, gods of wood and stone. 28:65 Among those nations you will have no rest nor will there be a place of peaceful rest for the soles of your feet, for there the Lord will give you an anxious heart, failing eyesight, and a spirit of despair. 28:66 Your life will hang in doubt before you; you will be terrified by night and day and will have no certainty of surviving from one day to the next. 82 28:67 In the morning you will say, ‘If only it were evening!’ And in the evening you will say, ‘I wish it were morning!’ because of the things you will fear and the things you will see. 28:68 Then the Lord will make you return to Egypt by ship, over a route I said to you that you would never see again. There you will sell yourselves to your enemies as male and female slaves, but no one will buy you.”
Ulangan 29:19-28
Konteks29:19 When such a person 83 hears the words of this oath he secretly 84 blesses himself 85 and says, “I will have peace though I continue to walk with a stubborn spirit.” 86 This will destroy 87 the watered ground with the parched. 88 29:20 The Lord will be unwilling to forgive him, and his intense anger 89 will rage 90 against that man; all the curses 91 written in this scroll will fall upon him 92 and the Lord will obliterate his name from memory. 93 29:21 The Lord will single him out 94 for judgment 95 from all the tribes of Israel according to all the curses of the covenant written in this scroll of the law. 29:22 The generation to come – your descendants who will rise up after you, as well as the foreigner who will come from distant places – will see 96 the afflictions of that land and the illnesses that the Lord has brought on it. 29:23 The whole land will be covered with brimstone, salt, and burning debris; it will not be planted nor will it sprout or produce grass. It will resemble the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the Lord destroyed in his intense anger. 97 29:24 Then all the nations will ask, “Why has the Lord done all this to this land? What is this fierce, heated display of anger 98 all about?” 29:25 Then people will say, “Because they abandoned the covenant of the Lord, the God of their ancestors, which he made with them when he brought them out of the land of Egypt. 29:26 They went and served other gods and worshiped them, gods they did not know and that he did not permit them to worship. 99 29:27 That is why the Lord’s anger erupted against this land, bringing on it all the curses 100 written in this scroll. 29:28 So the Lord has uprooted them from their land in anger, wrath, and great rage and has deported them to another land, as is clear today.”
Ulangan 32:34
Konteks32:34 “Is this not stored up with me?” says the Lord, 101
“Is it not sealed up in my storehouses?
Ulangan 32:43
Konteks32:43 Cry out, O nations, with his people,
for he will avenge his servants’ blood;
he will take vengeance against his enemies,
and make atonement for his land and people.
Mazmur 69:22-28
Konteks69:22 May their dining table become a trap before them!
May it be a snare for that group of friends! 102
69:23 May their eyes be blinded! 103
Make them shake violently! 104
69:24 Pour out your judgment 105 on them!
May your raging anger 106 overtake them!
69:25 May their camp become desolate,
their tents uninhabited! 107
69:26 For they harass 108 the one whom you discipline; 109
they spread the news about the suffering of those whom you punish. 110
69:27 Hold them accountable for all their sins! 111
Do not vindicate them! 112
69:28 May their names be deleted from the scroll of the living! 113
Do not let their names be listed with the godly! 114
Mazmur 149:7-9
Konteks149:7 in order to take 115 revenge on the nations,
and punish foreigners.
149:8 They bind 116 their kings in chains,
and their nobles in iron shackles,
149:9 and execute the judgment to which their enemies 117 have been sentenced. 118
All his loyal followers will be vindicated. 119
Praise the Lord!
Yesaya 65:12-16
Konteks65:12 I predestine you to die by the sword, 120
all of you will kneel down at the slaughtering block, 121
because I called to you, and you did not respond,
I spoke and you did not listen.
You did evil before me; 122
you chose to do what displeases me.”
65:13 So this is what the sovereign Lord says:
“Look, my servants will eat, but you will be hungry!
Look, my servants will drink, but you will be thirsty!
Look, my servants will rejoice, but you will be humiliated!
65:14 Look, my servants will shout for joy as happiness fills their hearts! 123
But you will cry out as sorrow fills your hearts; 124
you will wail because your spirits will be crushed. 125
65:15 Your names will live on in the curse formulas of my chosen ones. 126
The sovereign Lord will kill you,
but he will give his servants another name.
65:16 Whoever pronounces a blessing in the earth 127
will do so in the name of the faithful God; 128
whoever makes an oath in the earth
will do so in the name of the faithful God. 129
For past problems will be forgotten;
I will no longer think about them. 130
Daniel 9:26-27
Konteks9:26 Now after the sixty-two weeks,
an anointed one will be cut off and have nothing. 131
As for the city and the sanctuary,
the people of the coming prince will destroy 132 them.
But his end will come speedily 133 like a flood. 134
Until the end of the war that has been decreed
there will be destruction.
9:27 He will confirm a covenant with many for one week. 135
But in the middle of that week
he will bring sacrifices and offerings to a halt.
On the wing 136 of abominations will come 137 one who destroys,
until the decreed end is poured out on the one who destroys.”
Zakharia 11:1-3
Konteks11:1 Open your gates, Lebanon,
so that the fire may consume your cedars. 138
11:2 Howl, fir tree,
because the cedar has fallen;
the majestic trees have been destroyed.
Howl, oaks of Bashan,
because the impenetrable forest has fallen.
11:3 Listen to the howling of shepherds,
because their magnificence has been destroyed.
Listen to the roaring of young lions,
because the thickets of the Jordan have been devastated.
Zakharia 14:1-2
Konteks14:1 A day of the Lord 139 is about to come when your possessions 140 will be divided as plunder in your midst. 14:2 For I will gather all the nations against Jerusalem 141 to wage war; the city will be taken, its houses plundered, and the women raped. Then half of the city will go into exile, but the remainder of the people will not be taken away. 142
Maleakhi 4:1
Konteks4:1 (3:19) 143 “For indeed the day 144 is coming, burning like a furnace, and all the arrogant evildoers will be chaff. The coming day will burn them up,” says the Lord who rules over all. “It 145 will not leave even a root or branch.
Markus 13:19-20
Konteks13:19 For in those days there will be suffering 146 unlike anything that has happened 147 from the beginning of the creation that God created until now, or ever will happen. 13:20 And if the Lord had not cut short those days, no one would be saved. But because of the elect, whom he chose, he has cut them 148 short.
[26:14] 2 tn Heb “and do not do.”
[26:16] 4 tn Or “I also” (see HALOT 76 s.v. אַף 6.b).
[26:16] 5 tn Heb “soul.” These expressions may refer either to the physical effects of consumption and fever as the rendering in the text suggests (e.g., J. E. Hartley, Leviticus [WBC], 452, 454, “diminishing eyesight and loss of appetite”), or perhaps the more psychological effects, “which exhausts the eyes” because of anxious hope “and causes depression” (Heb “causes soul [נֶפֶשׁ, nefesh] to pine away”), e.g., B. A. Levine, Leviticus (JPSTC), 185.
[26:16] 6 tn Heb “and.” The Hebrew conjunction ו (vav, “and”) can be considered to have causal force here.
[26:16] 7 tn That is, “your enemies will eat” the produce that grows from the sown seed.
[26:18] 8 tn Heb “And if until these.”
[26:18] 9 tn Heb “I will add to discipline you seven [times] on your sins.”
[26:20] 10 tn Heb “the tree of the land will not give its fruit.” The collective singular has been translated as a plural. Tg. Onq., some medieval Hebrew
[26:21] 11 tn Heb “hostile with me,” but see the added preposition בְּ (bet) on the phrase “in hostility” in v. 24 and 27.
[26:21] 12 tn Heb “your blow, stroke”; cf. TEV “punishment”; NLT “I will inflict you with seven more disasters.”
[26:22] 13 tn Heb “the animal of the field.” This collective singular has been translated as a plural. The expression “animal of the field” refers to a wild (i.e., nondomesticated) animal.
[26:22] 14 tn The words “of your children” are not in the Hebrew text, but are implied.
[26:22] 15 tn Heb “and diminish you.”
[26:23] 16 tn Heb “And if in these.”
[26:23] 17 tn Heb “with me,” but see the added preposition בְּ (bet) on the phrase “in hostility” in vv. 24 and 27.
[26:24] 18 tn Heb “and I myself will also strike you.”
[26:25] 19 tn Heb “vengeance of covenant”; cf. NAB “the avenger of my covenant.”
[26:25] 20 tn Heb “and.” The Hebrew conjunction ו (vav, “and”) has a concessive force in this context.
[26:25] 21 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).
[26:26] 22 tn Heb “When I break to you staff of bread” (KJV, ASV, and NASB all similar).
[26:26] 23 tn Heb “they will return your bread in weight.”
[26:27] 24 tn Heb “And if in this.”
[26:28] 26 tn Heb “in rage of hostility with you”; NASB “with wrathful hostility”; NRSV “I will continue hostile to you in fury”; CEV “I’ll get really furious.”
[26:29] 27 tn Heb “and the flesh of your daughters you will eat.” The phrase “you will eat” has not been repeated in the translation for stylistic reasons.
[26:30] 28 sn Regarding these cultic installations, see the remarks in B. A. Levine, Leviticus (JPSTC), 188, and R. E. Averbeck, NIDOTTE 2:903. The term rendered “incense altars” might better be rendered “sanctuaries [of foreign deities]” or “stelae.”
[26:30] 29 tn The translation reflects the Hebrew wordplay “your corpses…the corpses of your idols.” Since idols, being lifeless, do not really have “corpses,” the translation uses “dead bodies” for people and “lifeless bodies” for the idols.
[26:30] 30 tn Heb “and my soul will abhor you.”
[26:31] 31 tn Heb “And I will give your cities a waste”; NLT “make your cities desolate.”
[26:33] 32 tn Heb “and I will empty sword” (see HALOT 1228 s.v. ריק 3).
[28:15] 33 tn Heb “do not hear the voice of.”
[28:15] 34 tn Heb “and overtake you” (so NIV, NRSV); NAB, NLT “and overwhelm you.”
[28:18] 35 tn Heb “the fruit of your womb” (so NAB, NIV, NRSV).
[28:19] 36 sn See note on the similar expression in v. 6.
[28:20] 37 tn Heb “the curse, the confusion, and the rebuke” (NASB and NIV similar); NRSV “disaster, panic, and frustration.”
[28:20] 38 tn Heb “in all the stretching out of your hand.”
[28:20] 39 tc For the MT first person common singular suffix (“me”), the LXX reads either “Lord” (Lucian) or third person masculine singular suffix (“him”; various codices). The MT’s more difficult reading probably represents the original text.
[28:20] tn Heb “the evil of your doings wherein you have forsaken me”; CEV “all because you rejected the Lord.”
[28:21] 40 tn Heb “will cause pestilence to cling to you.”
[28:22] 41 tn Heb “The
[28:22] 42 tn Or perhaps “consumption” (so KJV, NASB, NRSV). The term is from a verbal root that indicates a weakening of one’s physical strength (cf. NAB “wasting”; NIV, NLT “wasting disease”).
[28:22] 43 tn Heb “hot fever”; NIV “scorching heat.”
[28:22] 44 tn Or “drought” (so NIV, NRSV, NLT).
[28:23] 45 tc The MT reads “Your.” The LXX reads “Heaven will be to you.”
[28:23] 46 tn Or “heavens” (also in the following verse). The Hebrew term שָׁמַיִם (shamayim) may be translated “heaven(s)” or “sky” depending on the context.
[28:25] 47 tc The meaningless MT reading זַעֲוָה (za’avah) is clearly a transposition of the more commonly attested Hebrew noun זְוָעָה (zÿva’ah, “terror”).
[28:28] 48 tn Heb “heart” (so KJV, NASB).
[28:29] 49 tn Heb “you will not cause your ways to prosper.”
[28:30] 50 tc For MT reading שָׁגַל (shagal, “ravish; violate”), the Syriac, Targum, and Vulgate presume the less violent שָׁכַב (shakhav, “lie with”). The unexpected counterpart to betrothal here favors the originality of the MT.
[28:32] 51 tn Heb “and there will be no power in your hand”; NCV “there will be nothing you can do.”
[28:36] 52 tc The LXX reads the plural “kings.”
[28:40] 53 tn Heb “your olives will drop off” (נָשַׁל, nashal), referring to the olives dropping off before they ripen.
[28:42] 54 tn The Hebrew term denotes some sort of buzzing or whirring insect; some have understood this to be a type of locust (KJV, NIV, CEV), but other insects have also been suggested: “buzzing insects” (NAB); “the cricket” (NASB); “the cicada” (NRSV).
[28:43] 55 tn Heb “the foreigner.” This is a collective singular and has therefore been translated as plural; this includes the pronouns in the following verse, which are also singular in the Hebrew text.
[28:45] 56 tn Heb “commanded”; NAB, NIV, TEV “he gave you.”
[28:46] 57 tn Heb “they”; the referent (the curses mentioned previously) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
[28:46] 58 tn Heb “seed” (so KJV, ASV).
[28:48] 59 tn Heb “lack of everything.”
[28:48] 60 tn Heb “he” (also later in this verse). The pronoun is a collective singular referring to the enemies (cf. CEV, NLT). Many translations understand the singular pronoun to refer to the
[28:49] 61 tn Heb “from the end of the earth.”
[28:49] 62 tn Some translations understand this to mean “like an eagle swoops down” (e.g., NAB, NASB, NIV, NRSV, NLT), comparing the swift attack of an eagle to the attack of the Israelites’ enemies.
[28:51] 63 tn Heb “it” (so NRSV), a collective singular referring to the invading nation (several times in this verse and v. 52).
[28:51] 64 tn Heb “increase of herds.”
[28:51] 65 tn Heb “growth of flocks.”
[28:52] 66 tn Heb “gates,” also in vv. 55, 57.
[28:53] 67 tn Heb “the fruit of your womb” (so NAB, NRSV); NASB “the offspring of your own body.”
[28:53] 68 tn Heb “siege and stress.”
[28:55] 69 tn Heb “besiege,” redundant with the noun “siege.”
[28:56] 70 tc The LXX adds σφόδρα (sfodra, “very”) to bring the description into line with v. 54.
[28:56] 71 tn Heb “delicateness and tenderness.”
[28:57] 72 tn Heb includes “that which comes out from between her feet.”
[28:57] 73 tn Heb “her sons that she will bear.”
[28:57] 74 tn Heb includes “in her need for everything.”
[28:58] 75 tn Heb “If you are not careful to do.”
[28:60] 76 sn These are the plagues the
[28:60] 77 tn Heb “will cling to you” (so NIV); NLT “will claim you.”
[28:61] 78 tn The Hebrew term תּוֹרָה (torah) can refer either (1) to the whole Pentateuch or, more likely, (2) to the book of Deuteronomy or even (3) only to this curse section of the covenant text. “Scroll” better reflects the actual document, since “book” conveys the notion of a bound book with pages to the modern English reader. Cf. KJV, NASB, NRSV “the book of this law”; NIV, NLT “this Book of the Law”; TEV “this book of God’s laws and teachings.”
[28:62] 79 tn Or “heavens.” The Hebrew term שָׁמַיִם (shamayim) may be translated “heaven(s)” or “sky” depending on the context.
[28:62] 80 tn Heb “have not listened to the voice of.”
[28:63] 81 tn Heb “the
[28:66] 82 tn Heb “you will not be confident in your life.” The phrase “from one day to the next” is implied by the following verse.
[29:19] 83 tn Heb “he”; the referent (the subject of the warning in v. 18) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
[29:19] 84 tn Heb “in his heart.”
[29:19] 85 tn Or “invokes a blessing on himself.” A formalized word of blessing is in view, the content of which appears later in the verse.
[29:19] 87 tn Heb “thus destroying.” For stylistic reasons the translation begins a new sentence here.
[29:19] 88 tn Heb “the watered with the parched.” The word “ground” is implied. The exact meaning of the phrase is uncertain although it appears to be figurative. This appears to be a proverbial observation employing a figure of speech (a merism) suggesting totality. That is, the Israelite who violates the letter and even spirit of the covenant will harm not only himself but everything he touches – “the watered and the parched.” Cf. CEV “you will cause the rest of Israel to be punished along with you.”
[29:20] 89 tn Heb “the wrath of the
[29:20] 90 tn Heb “smoke,” or “smolder.”
[29:20] 91 tn Heb “the entire oath.”
[29:20] 92 tn Or “will lie in wait against him.”
[29:20] 93 tn Heb “blot out his name from under the sky.”
[29:21] 94 tn Heb “set him apart.”
[29:21] 95 tn Heb “for evil”; NAB “for doom”; NASB “for adversity”; NIV “for disaster”; NRSV “for calamity.”
[29:22] 96 tn Heb “will say and see.” One expects a quotation to appear, but it seems to be omitted. To avoid confusion in the translation, the verb “will say” is omitted.
[29:23] 97 tn Heb “the anger and the wrath.” This construction is a hendiadys intended to intensify the emotion.
[29:24] 98 tn Heb “this great burning of anger”; KJV “the heat of this great anger.”
[29:26] 99 tn Heb “did not assign to them”; NASB, NRSV “had not allotted to them.”
[29:27] 100 tn Heb “the entire curse.”
[32:34] 101 tn Verses 34-35 appear to be a quotation of the
[69:22] 102 tc Heb “and to the friends for a snare.” The plural of שָׁלוֹם (shalom, “peace”) is used in Ps 55:20 of one’s “friends.” If the reading of the MT is retained here, the term depicts the psalmist’s enemies as a close-knit group of friends who are bound together by their hatred for the psalmist. Some prefer to revocalize the text as וּלְשִׁלּוּמִים (ulÿshillumim, “and for retribution”). In this case the noun stands parallel to פַּח (pakh, “trap”) and מוֹקֵשׁ (moqesh, “snare”), and one might translate, “may their dining table become a trap before them, [a means of] retribution and a snare” (cf. NIV).
[69:23] 103 tn Heb “may their eyes be darkened from seeing.”
[69:23] 104 tn Heb “make their hips shake continually.”
[69:24] 105 tn Heb “anger.” “Anger” here refers metonymically to divine judgment, which is the practical effect of God’s anger.
[69:24] 106 tn Heb “the rage of your anger.” The phrase “rage of your anger” employs an appositional genitive. Synonyms are joined in a construct relationship to emphasize the single idea. For a detailed discussion of the grammatical point with numerous examples, see Y. Avishur, “Pairs of Synonymous Words in the Construct State (and in Appositional Hendiadys) in Biblical Hebrew,” Semitics 2 (1971), 17-81.
[69:25] 107 tn Heb “in their tents may there not be one who dwells.”
[69:25] sn In Acts 1:20 Peter applies the language of this verse to Judas’ experience. By changing the pronouns from plural to singular, he is able to apply the ancient curse, pronounced against the psalmist’s enemies, to Judas in particular.
[69:26] 108 tn Or “persecute”; Heb “chase.”
[69:26] 109 tn Heb “for you, the one whom you strike, they chase.”
[69:26] 110 tn Heb “they announce the pain of your wounded ones” (i.e., “the ones whom you wounded,” as the parallel line makes clear).
[69:26] sn The psalmist is innocent of the false charges made by his enemies (v. 4), but he is also aware of his sinfulness (v. 5) and admits that he experiences divine discipline (v. 26) despite his devotion to God (v. 9). Here he laments that his enemies take advantage of such divine discipline by harassing and slandering him. They “kick him while he’s down,” as the expression goes.
[69:27] 111 tn Heb “place sin upon their sin.”
[69:27] 112 tn Heb “let them not come into your vindication.”
[69:28] 113 tn Heb “let them be wiped out of the scroll of the living.”
[69:28] sn The phrase the scroll of the living occurs only here in the OT. It pictures a scroll or census list containing the names of the citizens of a community. When an individual died, that person’s name was removed from the list. So this curse is a very vivid way of asking that the enemies die.
[69:28] 114 tn Heb “and with the godly let them not be written.”
[69:28] sn Do not let their names be listed with the godly. This curse pictures a scroll in which God records the names of his loyal followers. The psalmist makes the point that his enemies have no right to be included in this list of the godly.
[149:9] 117 tn Heb “they”; the referent (the enemies of the people of God) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
[149:9] 118 tn Heb “to do against them judgment [that] is written.”
[149:9] 119 tn Heb “it is honor for all his godly ones.” The judgment of the oppressive kings will bring vindication and honor to God’s people (see vv. 4-5).
[65:12] 120 tn Heb “I assign you to the sword.” Some emend the Qal verb form מָנִיתִי (maniti, “I assign”) to the Piel מִנִּיתִי (minniti, “ I ordain”). The verb sounds like the name of the god Meni (מְנִי, mÿni, “Destiny, Fate”). The sound play draws attention to the irony of the statement. The sinners among God’s people worship the god Meni, apparently in an effort to ensure a bright destiny for themselves. But the Lord is the one who really determines their destiny and he has decreed their demise.
[65:12] 121 tn Or “at the slaughter”; NIV “for the slaughter”; NLT “before the executioner.”
[65:12] 122 tn Heb “that which is evil in my eyes.”
[65:14] 123 tn Heb “from the good of the heart.”
[65:14] 124 tn Heb “from the pain of the heart.”
[65:14] 125 tn Heb “from the breaking of the spirit.”
[65:15] 126 tn Heb “you will leave your name for an oath to my chosen ones.”
[65:15] sn For an example of such a curse formula see Jer 29:22.
[65:16] 127 tn Or “in the land” (NIV, NCV, NRSV). The same phrase occurs again later in this verse, with the same options.
[65:16] 128 tn Heb “will pronounce a blessing by the God of truth.”
[65:16] 129 tn Heb “will take an oath by the God of truth.”
[65:16] 130 tn Heb “for the former distresses will be forgotten, and they will be hidden from my eyes.”
[9:26] 131 sn The expression have nothing is difficult. Presumably it refers to an absence of support or assistance for the anointed one at the time of his “cutting off.” The KJV rendering “but not for himself,” apparently suggesting a vicarious death, cannot be defended.
[9:26] 132 tc Some witnesses (e.g., the Syriac) understand a passive verb and the preposition עִם (’im, “with) rather than the noun עַם (’am, “people”), thus reading “the city and the sanctuary will be destroyed with the coming prince.”
[9:26] 133 tn The words “will come speedily” are not in the Hebrew text but have been added in the translation for clarity.
[9:26] 134 sn Flood here is a metaphor for sudden destruction.
[9:27] 135 tn Heb “one seven” (also later in this line).
[9:27] 136 tn The referent of the Hebrew word כְּנַף (kÿnaf, “wing”) is unclear here. The LXX and Theodotion have “the temple.” Some English versions (e.g., NAB, NIV) take this to mean “a wing of the temple,” but this is not clear.
[9:27] 137 tn The Hebrew text does not have this verb, but it has been supplied in the translation for clarity.
[11:1] 138 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).
[14:1] 139 sn The eschatological day of the
[14:1] 140 tn Heb “your plunder.” Cf. NCV “the wealth you have taken.”
[14:2] 141 map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.
[14:2] 142 tn Heb “not be cut off from the city” (so NRSV); NAB “not be removed.”
[4:1] 143 sn Beginning with 4:1, the verse numbers through 4:6 in the English Bible differ from the verse numbers in the Hebrew text (BHS), with 4:1 ET = 3:19 HT, 4:2 ET = 3:20 HT, etc., through 4:6 ET = 3:24 HT. Thus the book of Malachi in the Hebrew Bible has only three chapters, with 24 verses in ch. 3.
[4:1] 144 sn This day is the well-known “day of the
[4:1] 145 tn Heb “so that it” (so NASB, NRSV). For stylistic reasons a new sentence was begun here in the translation.
[13:19] 146 tn Traditionally, “tribulation.”
[13:19] 147 sn Suffering unlike anything that has happened. Some refer this event to the destruction of Jerusalem in
