Discovery Box| (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) | (Jer 5:19) | 3 tn Heb “As you left me and…, so you will….” The translation was chosen so as to break up a rather long and complex sentence. |
| (0.30) | (Jer 6:6) | 3 tn Heb “Cut down its trees and build up a siege ramp against Jerusalem.” The referent has been moved forward from the second line for clarity. |
| (0.30) | (Isa 51:10) | 1 tn The Hebrew text reads literally, “Are you not the one who dried up the sea, the waters of the great deep, who made…?” |
| (0.30) | (Isa 45:13) | 1 tn Heb “I stir him up in righteousness”; NASB “I have aroused him.” See the note at 41:2. Cyrus (cf. 44:28) is in view here. |
| (0.30) | (Isa 37:30) | 3 sn This refers to crops that grew up on their own (that is, without cultivation) from the seed planted in past years. |
| (0.30) | (Isa 33:11) | 2 sn The hostile nations’ plans to destroy God’s people will come to nothing; their hostility will end up being self-destructive. |
| (0.30) | (Isa 27:11) | 2 tn Heb “women come [and] light it.” The city is likened to a dead tree with dried-up branches that is only good for firewood. |
| (0.30) | (Isa 23:12) | 2 tn Heb “[to the] Kittim, get up, cross over; even there there will be no rest for you.” On “Kittim” see the note on “Cyprus” at v. 1. |
| (0.30) | (Isa 9:15) | 1 tn Heb “the elder and the one lifted up with respect to the face.” For another example of the Hebrew idiom, see 2 Kgs 5:1. |
| (0.30) | (Isa 3:3) | 1 tn Heb “the ones lifted up with respect to the face.” For another example of the Hebrew idiom, see 2 Kgs 5:1. |
| (0.30) | (Pro 26:21) | 2 tn The Pilpel infinitive construct לְחַרְחַר (lekharkhar) from חָרַר (kharar, “to be hot; to be scorched; to burn”) means “to kindle; to cause to flare up.” |
| (0.30) | (Pro 21:14) | 5 tc The LXX offers a moralizing translation not too closely tied to the MT: “he who withholds a gift stirs up violent wrath.” |
| (0.30) | (Pro 14:29) | 3 sn The participle “exalts” (מֵרִים, merim) means that this person brings folly to a full measure, lifts it up, brings it to the full notice of everybody. |
| (0.30) | (Pro 11:26) | 1 tn The direct object suffix on the verb picks up on the emphatic absolute phrase: “they will curse him—the one who withholds grain.” |
| (0.30) | (Psa 135:18) | 1 tn Heb “will be.” Another option is to take the prefixed verbal form as a prayer, “may those who make them end up like them.” |
| (0.30) | (Psa 135:18) | 1 sn Because the idols are lifeless, they cannot help their worshipers in times of crisis. Consequently the worshipers end up as dead as the gods in which they trust. |
| (0.30) | (Psa 115:8) | 1 sn Because the idols are lifeless, they cannot help their worshipers in times of crisis. Consequently the worshipers end up as dead as the gods in which they trust. |
| (0.30) | (Psa 115:8) | 1 tn Heb “will be.” Another option is to take the prefixed verbal form as a prayer, “may those who make them end up like them.” |
| (0.30) | (Psa 68:1) | 2 tn Or “rises up.” The verb form is an imperfect, not a jussive. The psalmist is describing God’s appearance in battle in a dramatic fashion. |
