(0.30) | (Zep 3:20) | 4 tn Heb “when I restore your fortunes to your eyes.” See the note on the phrase “restore them” in 2:7. |
(0.30) | (Amo 3:8) | 2 sn Who can refuse to prophesy? When a message is revealed, the prophet must speak, and the news of impending judgment should cause people to fear. |
(0.30) | (Hos 1:1) | 2 tn Heb “in the days of” (again later in this verse). Cf. NASB “during the days of”; NIV “during the reigns of”; NLT “during the years when.” |
(0.30) | (Eze 31:5) | 1 tn Heb “when it sends forth.” Repointing the consonants of the Masoretic text would render the proposed reading of “shoots” (cf. NRSV). |
(0.30) | (Eze 21:23) | 2 sn When the people of Judah realized the Babylonians’ intentions, they would object on grounds that they had made a treaty with the Babylonian king (see 17:13). |
(0.30) | (Eze 16:37) | 1 sn Harlots suffered degradation when their nakedness was exposed (Jer 13:22, 26; Hos 2:12; Nah 3:5). |
(0.30) | (Eze 5:16) | 1 tn The Hebrew word carries the basic idea of “bad, displeasing, injurious” but has the nuance “deadly” when used of weapons (see Ps 144:10). |
(0.30) | (Lam 2:17) | 2 tn Heb “His word.” When used in collocation with the verb בָּצַע (batsaʿ, “to fulfill,” see previous), the accusative noun אִמְרָה (ʾimrah, “word”) means “promise.” |
(0.30) | (Jer 36:13) | 1 tn Heb “Micaiah reported to them all the words that he heard when Baruch read from the scroll in the ears of the people.” |
(0.30) | (Jer 22:20) | 3 sn If the passages in this section are chronologically ordered, this refers to the help that Jehoiakim relied on when he rebelled against Nebuchadnezzar. |
(0.30) | (Jer 6:20) | 2 tn The words “when they offer up to me” are not in the text but are implicit from the following context. They are supplied in the translation for clarity. |
(0.30) | (Isa 44:23) | 5 tn That is, by delivering Israel. Cf. NCV “showed his glory when he saved Israel”; TEV “has shown his greatness by saving his people Israel.” |
(0.30) | (Isa 30:19) | 3 tn Heb “he will indeed show you mercy at the sound of your crying out; when he hears, he will answer you.” |
(0.30) | (Isa 20:1) | 1 tn Heb “In the year the commanding general came to Ashdod, when Sargon king of Assyria sent him, and he fought against Ashdod and captured it.” |
(0.30) | (Isa 10:14) | 1 sn The Assyrians’ conquests were relatively unopposed, like robbing a bird’s nest of its eggs when the mother bird is absent. |
(0.30) | (Isa 10:3) | 1 tn Heb “the day of visitation” (so KJV, ASV), that is, the day when God arrives to execute justice on the oppressors. |
(0.30) | (Isa 9:4) | 2 sn This alludes to Gideon’s victory over Midian (Judg 7-8), when the Lord delivered Israel from an oppressive foreign invader. |
(0.30) | (Isa 5:16) | 2 tn Heb “by judgment/justice.” When God justly punishes the evildoers denounced in the preceding verses, he will be recognized as a mighty warrior. |
(0.30) | (Sos 2:8) | 3 tn The exclamation הִנֵּה־זֶה (hinneh zeh, “Look!”) is used of excited speech when someone is seen approaching (Isa 21:9). |
(0.30) | (Sos 2:6) | 1 sn Ultimately, the only cure for her love-sickness is her beloved. The ancient Near Eastern love songs frequently portray the embrace of the lover as the only cure for the speaker’s love-sickness. For example, one Egyptian love song reads: “She will make the doctors unnecessary because she knows my sickness” (Papyrus Harris 4:11). Similarly, “My salvation is her coming in from outside; when I see her, I will be healthy. When she opens her eye, my body is young; when she speaks, I will be strong. When I embrace her, she exorcises evil from me” (Papyrus Chester Beatty, C5:1-2). |