3:5 “I 6 will come to you in judgment. I will be quick to testify against those who practice divination, those who commit adultery, those who break promises, 7 and those who exploit workers, widows, and orphans, 8 who refuse to help 9 the immigrant 10 and in this way show they do not fear me,” says the Lord who rules over all.
1 tn Heb “and if you do not place upon [the] heart”; KJV, NAB, NRSV “lay it to heart.”
2 tn Heb “the curse” (so NASB, NRSV); NLT “a terrible curse.”
3 tn Heb “and not one has done, and a remnant of the spirit to him.” The very elliptical nature of the statement suggests it is proverbial. The present translation represents an attempt to clarify the meaning of the statement (cf. NASB).
4 tn Heb “the one.” This is an oblique reference to Abraham who sought to obtain God’s blessing by circumventing God’s own plan for him by taking Hagar as wife (Gen 16:1-6). The result of this kind of intermarriage was, of course, disastrous (Gen 16:11-12).
5 sn The wife he took in his youth probably refers to the first wife one married (cf. NCV “the wife you married when you were young”).
6 tn The first person pronoun (a reference to the
7 tn Heb “those who swear [oaths] falsely.” Cf. NIV “perjurers”; TEV “those who give false testimony”; NLT “liars.”
8 tn Heb “and against the oppressors of the worker for a wage, [the] widow and orphan.”
9 tn Heb “those who turn aside.”
10 tn Or “resident foreigner”; NIV “aliens”; NRSV “the alien.”