5:28 Their arrows are sharpened,
and all their bows are prepared. 1
The hooves of their horses are hard as flint, 2
and their chariot wheels are like a windstorm. 3
13:18 Their arrows will cut young men to ribbons; 4
they have no compassion on a person’s offspring, 5
they will not 6 look with pity on children.
66:15 For look, the Lord comes with fire,
his chariots come like a windstorm, 7
to reveal his raging anger,
his battle cry, and his flaming arrows. 8
1 tn Heb “bent” (so KJV, NAB, NASB, NRSV); NIV “are strung.”
2 tn Heb “regarded like flint.”
3 sn They are like a windstorm in their swift movement and in the way they kick up dust.
4 tn Heb “and bows cut to bits young men.” “Bows” stands by metonymy for arrows.
5 tn Heb “the fruit of the womb.”
6 tn Heb “their eye does not.” Here “eye” is a metonymy for the whole person.
7 sn Chariots are like a windstorm in their swift movement and in the way that they kick up dust.
8 tn Heb “to cause to return with the rage of his anger, and his battle cry [or “rebuke”] with flames of fire.”