30:31 Indeed, the Lord’s shout will shatter Assyria; 2
he will beat them with a club.
1 tn Heb “Indeed (or perhaps “for”) destruction and what is decreed the sovereign master, the Lord who commands armies, is about to accomplish in the middle of all the land.” The phrase כָלָא וְנֶחֱרָצָה (khala’ venekheratsah, “destruction and what is decreed”) is a hendiadys; the two terms express one idea, with the second qualifying the first.
2 tn Heb “Indeed by the voice of the Lord Assyria will be shattered.”