54:15 If anyone dares to 1 challenge you, it will not be my doing!
Whoever tries to challenge you will be defeated. 2
16:3 “Bring a plan, make a decision! 3
Provide some shade in the middle of the day! 4
Hide the fugitives! Do not betray 5 the one who tries to escape!
59:15 Honesty has disappeared;
the one who tries to avoid evil is robbed.
The Lord watches and is displeased, 6
for there is no justice.
1 tn The infinitive absolute precedes the finite verb here for emphasis.
2 tn Heb “will fall over you.” The expression נָפַל עַל (nafal ’al) can mean “attack,” but here it means “fall over to,” i.e., “surrender to.”
3 sn It is unclear who is being addressed in this verse. Perhaps the prophet, playing the role of a panic stricken Moabite refugee, requests the leaders of Judah (the imperatives are plural) to take pity on the fugitives.
4 tn Heb “Make your shade like night in the midst of noonday.” “Shade” here symbolizes shelter, while the heat of noonday represents the intense suffering of the Moabites. By comparing the desired shade to night, the speaker visualizes a huge dark shadow cast by a large tree that would provide relief from the sun’s heat.
5 tn Heb “disclose, uncover.”
6 tn Heb “and it is displeasing in his eyes.”