21:29 while seeing false visions for you
and reading lying omens for you 1 –
to place that sword 2 on the necks of the profane wicked, 3
whose day has come,
the time of final punishment.
23:35 “Therefore this is what the sovereign Lord says: Because you have forgotten me and completely disregarded me, 4 you must bear now the punishment 5 for your obscene conduct and prostitution.”
35:5 “‘You have shown unrelenting hostility and poured the people of Israel onto the blades of a sword 6 at the time of their calamity, at the time of their final punishment.
1 tn Heb “in the seeing concerning you falsehood, in divining concerning you a lie.” This probably refers to the attempts of the Ammonites to ward off judgment through prophetic visions and divination.
2 tn Heb “you”; the referent (the sword mentioned in v. 28) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
3 sn The second half of the verse appears to state that the sword of judgment would fall upon the wicked, despite their efforts to prevent it.
4 tn Heb “and you cast me behind your back.” The expression pictures her rejection of the Lord (see 1 Kgs 14:9).
5 tn The word “punishment” is not in the Hebrew text but is demanded by the context.
6 tn Or “gave over…to the power of the sword.” This phrase also occurs in Jer 18:21 and Ps 63:10.