38:17 “‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: Are you the one of whom I spoke in former days by my servants 1 the prophets of Israel, who prophesied in those days 2 that I would bring you against them?
1 tn Heb “by the hand of my servants.”
2 tn The Hebrew text adds “years” here, but this is probably a scribal gloss on the preceding phrase. See L. C. Allen, Ezekiel (WBC), 2:201.