9:5 While I listened, he said to the others, 1 “Go through the city after him and strike people down; do no let your eye pity nor spare 2 anyone!
22:13 “‘See, I strike my hands together 3 at the dishonest profit you have made, and at the bloodshed 4 they have done among you.
1 tn Heb “to these he said in my ears.”
2 tn The meaning of the Hebrew term is primarily emotional: “to pity,” which in context implies an action, as in being moved by pity in order to spare them from the horror of their punishment.
3 sn This gesture apparently expresses mourning and/or anger (see 6:11; 21:14, 17).
4 tn Heb “the blood which was in you.”