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
26:14 The dead do not come back to life,
the spirits of the dead do not rise. 4
That is because 5 you came in judgment 6 and destroyed them,
you wiped out all memory of them.
26:15 You have made the nation larger, 7 O Lord,
you have made the nation larger and revealed your splendor, 8
you have extended all the borders of the land.
38:20 The Lord is about to deliver me, 9
and we will celebrate with music 10
for the rest of our lives in the Lord’s temple.” 11
59:11 We all growl like bears,
we coo mournfully like doves;
we wait for deliverance, 12 but there is none,
for salvation, but it is far from us.
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 sn In light of what is said in verse 14b, the “dead” here may be the “masters” mentioned in verse 13.
5 tn The Hebrew term לָכֵן (lakhen) normally indicates a cause-effect relationship between what precedes and follows and is translated, “therefore.” Here, however, it infers the cause from the effect and brings out what is implicit in the previous statement. See BDB 487 s.v.
6 tn Heb “visited [for harm]” (cf. KJV, ASV); NAB, NRSV “you have punished.”
7 tn Heb “you have added to the nation.” The last line of the verse suggests that geographical expansion is in view. “The nation” is Judah.
8 tn Or “brought honor to yourself.”
9 tn The infinitive construct is used here to indicate that an action is imminent. See GKC 348-49 §114.i, and IBHS 610 §36.2.3g.
10 tn Heb “and music [or perhaps, “stringed instruments”] we will play.”
11 tn Heb “all the days of our lives in the house of the Lord.”
sn Note that vv. 21-22 have been placed between vv. 6-7, where they logically belong. See 2 Kgs 20:7-8.
12 tn See the note at v. 9.