¹ tn Grk “always.”

¹ tn Or “always before me.”

¹ tn Grk “remember you, always asking.”

¹ tn Grk “to fill up their sins always.”

¹ tn Or “who always causes us to triumph.”

¹ tn Grk “that you always hear me.”

⁴ tn Grk “your time is always ready.”

² tn Grk “you have a good remembrance of us always.”

³ tn Grk “But it is always good to be zealous in good.”

¹ tn Grk “I went up”; one always spoke idiomatically of going “up” to Jerusalem.

³ tn Grk “true” (in the sense of one who always tells the truth).

² tn Heb “the ones who are always at ease [who] increase wealth.”

³ sn That is, not to circumcise their male children. Biblical references to circumcision always refer to male circumcision.

² tn Heb “the eyes of the Lord your God are continually on it” (so NIV); NASB, NRSV “always on it.”

¹ tn Grk “in every way for every generosity,” or “he will always make you rich enough to be generous at all times” (L&N 57.29).

³ tn “They reported all the things God had done with them”—an identical phrase occurs in Acts 14:27. God is always the agent.

² tn Or “craftiness.” The term always has negative connotations in the NT (1 Cor 3:19; 2 Cor 4:2; 11:3; Eph 4:14).

³ tn Or “The Lord will completely foil whatever you plot against him”; or “Whatever you may think about the Lord, he [always] brings everything to a conclusion.”

⁴ tn Or more freely, “Their arrows will be as successful at hitting their mark // as a skilled soldier—he always returns from battle with plunder.”

¹ sn The picture is that of undisturbed complacency (cf. Zeph 1:12). Because Moab had never known the discipline of exile, she had remained as she always was.