40:19 A craftsman casts 4 an idol;
a metalsmith overlays it with gold
and forges silver chains for it.
1 tn Or “in that day” (KJV).
2 tn Heb “reject” (so NIV); NRSV, TEV, CEV, NLT “throw away.”
3 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.
4 tn Heb “pours out”; KJV “melteth.”