16:23 “‘After all of your evil – “Woe! Woe to you!” declares the sovereign Lord –
1 tn Heb “their knees will run with water.” The expression probably refers to urination caused by fright, which is how the LXX renders the phrase. More colloquial English would simply be “they will wet their pants,” but as D. I. Block (Ezekiel [NICOT], 1:261, n. 98) notes, the men likely wore skirts which were short enough to expose urine on the knees.
2 tn D. I. Block prefers to see the Hebrew word as referring here to a western ally of Egypt or as an alternative spelling for Pathros, that is, Upper Egypt. See D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 2:439-40.
3 sn That is, Lydia.
4 tn Heb “twenty-five cubits” (i.e., 13.125 meters).
5 tn Heb “five cubits” (i.e., 2.625 meters).
6 tn Heb “will be.”