¹ tn Heb “I know.”

² tn Heb “holy man of God.”

³ tn Heb “and Edom rebelled from under the hand of Judah until this day.”

⁴ tn Or “pulled down.”

⁵ tn The verb “they demolished” is repeated in the Hebrew text.

⁶ tn Heb “and they made it into.”

⁷ tn The consonantal text (Kethib) has the hapax legomenon מַחֲרָאוֹת (makhara’ot), “places to defecate” or “dung houses” (note the related noun חרא (khr’)/חרי (khri), “dung,” HALOT 348-49 s.v. *חֲרָאִים). The marginal reading (Qere) glosses this, perhaps euphemistically, מוֹצָאוֹת (motsa’ot), “outhouses.”

⁸ tn Or “struck down.”

⁹ tc Some prefer to read “the king of Edom” and “for Edom” here. The names Syria (Heb “Aram,” אֲרָם, ’aram) and Edom (אֱדֹם, ’edom) are easily confused in the Hebrew consonantal script.

¹⁰ tn Heb “from Elat.”

¹¹ tc The consonantal text (Kethib), supported by many medieval Hebrew mss, the Syriac version, and some mss of the Targum and Vulgate, read “Syrians” (Heb “Arameans”). The marginal reading (Qere), supported by the LXX, Targums, and Vulgate, reads “Edomites.”

¹² tn Heb “Some of your sons, who go out from you, whom you father.”

¹³ tn Heb “in my eyes.”