¹ tn Or “Let their tents…be taken….Let their tent…be carried…. Let people shout….”

² tn The words “How long” are not in the text. They are carried over from the first line.

³ tn “Bless” may here carry the sense of “endue with potency, reproductive power.” See Gen 1:28.

¹ tn Or “certainly the officials of Zoan are fools.” אַךְ (’akh) can carry the sense, “only, nothing but,” or “certainly, surely.”

¹ tn Heb “carried off,” i.e., grabbed from the fleeing crowd. See HALOT 764 s.v. ספה.

⁴ tn Heb “might carry the voice.” The article is used here with the force of a possessive pronoun.

¹ tn Only here does the Hebrew verb חָגַג (khagag; normally meaning “to celebrate”) carry the nuance “to sway.”

² tn Heb “God [is] in his holy dwelling place.” He occupies his throne and carries out his royal responsibilities.

³ tn The perfect verbal form with vav (ו) consecutive carries along the generalizing emphasis of the preceding imperfect.

¹ tn The prefixed verbal forms with vav (ו) consecutive carry on the generalizing tone of the preceding verse.

² tn The prefixed verbal form with vav (ו) consecutive here carries the descriptive function of the preceding perfect.

⁴ tn The prefixed verbal form with vav (ו) consecutive here carries along the generalizing force of the preceding participle.

¹ sn The point should not be missed—amidst abundant harvests, carrying sheaves about, they are still going hungry.

¹ tn Heb “prisoner.” Jehoiachin was carried off to Babylon as a prisoner. See 2 Chr 36:10.

¹ sn And its poles. These poles were used to carry the ark. See Exod 25:13-15.

³ tn The prefixed verbal form with vav consecutive here carries along the generalizing tone of the preceding line.

¹ tn Or “the servant who was carrying his military equipment” (likewise in vv. 6, 7, 12, 13, 14).

⁴ tn Heb “destroy.” The translation “devour” carries through the imagery of a locust plague earlier in this verse.

³ tn The imperfect tense carries a nuance of obligatory imperfect because this is binding on the one who hit him.

⁴ tn The perfect with vav (ו) consecutive carries the same force as the sequence of jussives before it.