3:23 We know our noisy worship of false gods
on the hills and mountains did not help us. 1
We know that the Lord our God
is the only one who can deliver Israel. 2
5:4 I thought, “Surely it is only the ignorant poor who act this way. 3
They act like fools because they do not know what the Lord demands. 4
They do not know what their God requires of them. 5
1 tn Heb “Truly in vain from the hills the noise/commotion [and from] the mountains.” The syntax of the Hebrew sentence is very elliptical here.
2 tn Heb “Truly in the
3 tn Heb “Surely they are poor.” The translation is intended to make clear the explicit contrasts and qualifications drawn in this verse and the next.
4 tn Heb “the way of the
5 tn Heb “the judgment [or ordinance] of their God.”