7:10 “Look, the day! Look, it is coming! Doom has gone out! The staff has budded, pride has blossomed!
1 tn Heb “men of slander are in you in order to shed blood.”
2 tn Heb “and on the mountains they eat within you.” The mountains mentioned here were the site of pagan sacrifices. See 18:6.
3 sn This statement introduces vv. 10-11 and refers in general terms to the sexual sins described there. For the legal background of vv. 10-11, see Lev 18:7-20; 20:10-21; Deut 22:22-23, 30; 27:22.