14:15 But you were brought down 1 to Sheol,
to the remote slopes of the pit. 2
22:7 Your very best valleys were full of chariots; 3
horsemen confidently took their positions 4 at the gate.
33:4 Your plunder 5 disappears as if locusts were eating it; 6
they swarm over it like locusts! 7
1 tn The prefixed verb form is taken as a preterite. Note the use of perfects in v. 12 to describe the king’s downfall.
2 tn The Hebrew term בּוּר (bor, “cistern”) is sometimes used metaphorically to refer to the place of the dead or the entrance to the underworld.
3 tn The verb that introduces this verse serves as a discourse particle and is untranslated; see note on “in the future” in 2:2.
4 tn Heb “taking a stand, take their stand.” The infinitive absolute emphasizes the following finite verb. The translation attempts to bring out this emphasis with the adverb “confidently.”
5 tn The pronoun is plural; the statement is addressed to the nations who have stockpiled plunder from their conquests of others.
6 tn Heb “and your plunder is gathered, the gathering of the locust.”
7 tn Heb “like a swarm of locusts swarming on it.”