54:3 For you will spread out to the right and to the left;
your children will conquer 3 nations
and will resettle desolate cities.
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 Or “take possession of”; NAB “shall dispossess.”