19:22 Whom have you taunted and hurled insults at?
At whom have you shouted, 1
and looked so arrogantly? 2
At the Holy One of Israel! 3
19:28 Because you rage against me,
and the uproar you create has reached my ears; 4
I will put my hook in your nose, 5
and my bridle between your lips,
and I will lead you back the way
you came.”
1 tn Heb “have you raised a voice.”
2 tn Heb “and lifted your eyes on high?”
3 sn This divine title pictures the Lord as the sovereign king who rules over his covenant people and exercises moral authority over them.
4 tc Heb “and your complacency comes up into my ears.” The parallelism is improved if שַׁאֲנַנְךְ (sha’anankh), “your complacency,” is emended to שַׁאֲוַנְךְ (sha’avankh), “your uproar.” See M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 237-38.
5 sn The word picture has a parallel in Assyrian sculpture. See M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 238.