15:6 For the waters of Nimrim are gone; 1
the grass is dried up,
the vegetation has disappeared,
and there are no plants.
19:7 along with the plants by the mouth of the river. 2
All the cultivated land near the river
will turn to dust and be blown away. 3
44:14 He cuts down cedars
and acquires a cypress 4 or an oak.
He gets 5 trees from the forest;
he plants a cedar 6 and the rain makes it grow.
1 tn Heb “are waste places”; cf. NRSV “are a desolation.”
2 tn Heb “the plants by the river, by the mouth of the river.”
3 tn Heb “will dry up, [being] scattered, and it will vanish.”
4 tn It is not certain what type of tree this otherwise unattested noun refers to. Cf. ASV “a holm-tree” (NRSV similar).
5 tn Heb “strengthens for himself,” i.e., “secures for himself” (see BDB 55 s.v. אָמֵץ Pi.2).
6 tn Some prefer to emend אֹרֶן (’oren) to אֶרֶז (’erez, “cedar”), but the otherwise unattested noun appears to have an Akkadian cognate, meaning “cedar.” See H. R. Cohen, Biblical Hapax Legomena (SBLDS), 44-45. HALOT 90 s.v. I אֹרֶן offers the meaning “laurel.”