13:9 Look, the Lord’s day of judgment 3 is coming;
it is a day of cruelty and savage, raging anger, 4
destroying 5 the earth 6
and annihilating its sinners.
14:17 Is this the one who made the world like a desert,
who ruined its 7 cities,
and refused to free his prisoners so they could return home?”’ 8
16:2 At the fords of the Arnon 9
the Moabite women are like a bird
that flies about when forced from its nest. 10
16:7 So Moab wails over its demise 11 –
they all wail!
Completely devastated, they moan
about what has happened to the raisin cakes of Kir Hareseth. 12
34:10 Night and day it will burn; 13
its smoke will ascend continually.
Generation after generation it will be a wasteland
and no one will ever pass through it again.
34:15 Owls 14 will make nests and lay eggs 15 there;
they will hatch them and protect them. 16
Yes, hawks 17 will gather there,
each with its mate.
48:19 Your descendants would have been as numerous as sand, 18
and your children 19 like its granules.
Their name would not have been cut off
and eliminated from my presence. 20
51:15 I am the Lord your God,
who churns up the sea so that its waves surge.
The Lord who commands armies is his name!
57:20 But the wicked are like a surging sea
that is unable to be quiet;
its waves toss up mud and sand.
60:13 The splendor of Lebanon will come to you,
its evergreens, firs, and cypresses together,
to beautify my palace; 21
I will bestow honor on my throne room. 22
1 tn Heb “and let us break it open for ourselves”; NASB “make for ourselves a breach in its walls”; NLT “fight our way into.”
2 tn Heb “and we will make the son of Tabeel king in its midst.”
sn The precise identity of this would-be puppet king is unknown. He may have been a Syrian official or the ruler of one of the small neighboring states. See Y. Aharoni, Land of the Bible, 370.
3 tn Heb “the day of the Lord.”
4 tn Heb “[with] cruelty, and fury, and rage of anger.” Three synonyms for “anger” are piled up at the end of the line to emphasize the extraordinary degree of divine anger that will be exhibited in this judgment.
5 tn Heb “making desolate.”
6 tn Or “land” (KJV, NAB, NASB, NIV, NLT).
7 tc The pronominal suffix is masculine, even though its antecedent appears to be the grammatically feminine noun “world.” Some have suggested that the form עָרָיו (’arayv, plural noun with third masculine singular suffix) should be emended to עָרֶיהָ (’areha, plural noun with third feminine singular suffix). This emendation may be unnecessary in light of other examples of lack of agreement a suffix and its antecedent noun.
8 tn Heb “and his prisoners did not let loose to [their] homes.” This really means, “he did not let loose his prisoners and send them back to their homes.’ On the elliptical style, see GKC 366 §117.o.
9 tn The verb that introduces this verse serves as a discourse particle and is untranslated; see note on “in the future” in 2:2.
10 tn Heb “like a bird fleeing, thrust away [from] a nest, the daughters of Moab are [at] the fords of Arnon.”
11 tn Heb “So Moab wails for Moab.”
12 tn The Hebrew text has, “for the raisin cakes of Kir Hareseth you [masculine plural] moan, surely destroyed.” The “raisin cakes” could have cultic significance (see Hos 3:1), but the next verse focuses on agricultural disaster, so here the raisin cakes are mentioned as an example of the fine foods that are no longer available (see 2 Sam 6:19; Song 2:5) because the vines have been destroyed by the invader (see v. 8). Some prefer to take אֲשִׁישֵׁי (’ashishe, “raisin cakes of”) as “men of” (see HALOT 95 s.v. *אָשִׁישׁ; cf. NIV). The verb form תֶהְגּוּ (tehgu, “you moan”) is probably the result of dittography (note that the preceding word ends in tav [ת]) and should be emended to הגו (a perfect, third plural form), “they moan.”
13 tn Heb “it will not be extinguished.”
14 tn Hebrew קִפּוֹז (qippoz) occurs only here; the precise meaning of the word is uncertain.
15 tn For this proposed meaning for Hebrew מָלַט (malat), see HALOT 589 s.v. I מלט.
16 tn Heb “and brood [over them] in her shadow.”
17 tn The precise meaning of דַּיָּה (dayyah) is uncertain, though the term appears to refer to some type of bird of prey, perhaps a vulture.
18 tn Heb “like sand”; NCV “as many as the grains of sand.”
19 tn Heb “and the issue from your inner parts.”
20 tn Heb “and his name would not be cut off and would not be destroyed from before me.”
21 tn Or “holy place, sanctuary.”
22 tn Heb “the place of my feet.” See Ezek 43:7, where the Lord’s throne is called the “place of the soles of my feet.”