9:7 “You are righteous, 2 O Lord, but we are humiliated this day 3 – the people 4 of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem and all Israel, both near and far away in all the countries in which you have scattered them, because they have behaved unfaithfully toward you.
1 tn Aram “as one.” For the meaning “without distinction” see the following: F. Rosenthal, Grammar, 36, §64, and p. 93; E. Vogt, Lexicon linguae aramaicae, 60.
2 tn Heb “to you (belongs) righteousness.”
3 tn Heb “and to us (belongs) shame of face like this day.”
4 tn Heb “men.”
5 tn Or “righteousness.”
6 tn Heb “your anger and your rage.” The synonyms are joined here to emphasize the degree of God’s anger. This is best expressed in English by making one of the terms adjectival (cf. NLT “your furious anger”; CEV “terribly angry”).