47:7 But how can it rest 1
when I, the Lord, have 2 given it orders?
I have ordered it to attack
the people of Ashkelon and the seacoast. 3
1 tn The reading here follows the Greek, Syriac, and Latin versions. The Hebrew text reads “how can you rest” as a continuation of the second person in v. 6.
2 tn Heb “When the
3 tn Heb “Against Ashkelon and the sea coast, there he has appointed it.” For the switch to the first person see the preceding translator’s note. “There” is poetical and redundant and the idea of “attacking” is implicit in “against.”
4 tn The subject is unstated in the Hebrew text, but Jehoiachin is clearly the subject of the following verb.