31:6 You Israelites! Return to the one against whom you have so blatantly rebelled! 1 31:7 For at that time 2 everyone will get rid of 3 the silver and gold idols your hands sinfully made. 4
1 tn Heb “Return to the one [against] whom the sons of Israel made deep rebellion.” The syntax is awkward here. A preposition is omitted by ellipsis after the verb (see GKC 446 §138.f, n. 2), and there is a shift from direct address (note the second plural imperative “return”) to the third person (note “they made deep”). For other examples of abrupt shifts in person in poetic style, see GKC 462 §144.p.
2 tn Or “in that day” (KJV).
3 tn Heb “reject” (so NIV); NRSV, TEV, CEV, NLT “throw away.”
4 tn Heb “the idols of their idols of silver and their idols of gold which your hands made for yourselves [in] sin.” חָטָא (khata’, “sin”) is understood as an adverbial accusative of manner. See J. N. Oswalt, Isaiah (NICOT), 1:573, n. 4.