10:3 Very soon they will say, “We have no king
since we did not fear the Lord.
But what can a king do for us anyway?”
10:9 O Israel, you have sinned since the time 1 of Gibeah,
and there you have remained.
Did not war overtake the evildoers in Gibeah?
11:3 Yet it was I who led 2 Ephraim,
I took them by the arm;
but they did not acknowledge
that I had healed them. 3
1 tn Heb “days” (so KJV, NAB, NIV, NRSV).
2 tn Or “taught Ephraim to walk” (so ASV, NAB, NASB, NIV, NRSV). The verb תִרְגַּלְתִּי (tirgalti, “I taught [him] to walk, I led [him]”; Tiphil perfect 1st person common singular from רָגַל, ragal, “to walk”) is an unusual verb stem: the Tiphil (properly Taphel) is attested three times in Biblical Hebrew (Hos 11:3; Jer 12:5; 22:15) and once in Biblical Aramaic (Ezra 4:7; see GKC 153 §55.h).
3 tn Or “that it was I who had healed them” (NIV, NLT similar).