² tn Grk “the world itself.”

¹ tn Grk “makes itself,” “is made.”

³ tn Heb “his heart gathers sin to itself.”

² tn Heb “might glorify itself against me.”

² tn Heb “a herd, a herd, by itself,” or “each herd by itself.” The distributive sense is expressed by repetition.

² tn Grk “the promise,” referring to the thing God promised, not to the pledge itself.

³ sn An allusion to Gen 22:17 (which itself goes back to Gen 15:5).

¹ tn Grk “the promise,” referring to the thing God promised, not to the pledge itself.

¹ sn Defend yourself. The Lord challenges Israel to defend itself against the charges he is bringing.

² sn Everything written about me. The divine plan, events, and scripture itself are seen here as being one.

³ tn Or “Israel has become corrupt”; cf. NCV “has made itself unclean,” and TEV “are unfit to worship me.”

⁵ tn Heb “will fall there.” The “falling” could refer to the curse itself or to the result of the curse.

⁴ sn This is literally “long of anger.” His anger prolongs itself, allowing for people to repent before punishment is inflicted.

² tn Grk “in the gospel,” a metonymy in which the gospel itself is substituted for the ministry of making the gospel known.

³ tn Grk “when they were being executed,” but the context supports the sentencing rather than the execution itself (cf. L&N 30.103).

³ tn This is a collective singular use of the term καρδία (kardia), so each of their hearts were burning, a reference itself to the intense emotion of their response.

¹ tn The Hebrew word refers to the din or noise made by a crowd, and by extension may refer to the crowd itself.

² tn The Hebrew word refers to the din or noise made by a crowd, and by extension may refer to the crowd itself.

¹ tn The arm of the Lord is a symbol of divine military power. Here it is personified and told to arouse itself from sleep and prepare for action.

² tn The Hebrew noun קֵד (qed, “fireplace”) occurs only here, in Isa 33:14 (where it refers to the fire itself), and perhaps in Lev 6:2.