27:11 The Arvadites 3 joined your army on your walls all around,
and the Gammadites 4 were in your towers.
They hung their quivers 5 on your walls all around;
they perfected your beauty.
1 tn The same verb appears in 4:17 and 33:10.
2 tn Or “in your punishment.” The phrase “in/for [a person’s] iniquity/punishment” occurs fourteen times in Ezekiel: here; 3:18, 19; 4:17; 7:13, 16; 18:17, 18, 19, 20; 33:6, 8, 9; 39:23. The Hebrew word for “iniquity” may also mean the “punishment” for iniquity or “guilt” of iniquity.
3 tn Heb “sons of Arvad.”
4 sn The identity of the Gammadites is uncertain.
5 tn See note on “quivers” in Jer 51:11 on the meaning of Hebrew שֶׁלֶט (shelet) and also M. Greenberg, Ezekiel (AB), 2:553.