⁴ tn Heb “emptiness.”

¹ tn Or “uninhabited” or “empty.”

² tn Heb “nothing”; NAB “emptiness.”

¹ tn Heb “empty and reckless.”

¹ tn Grk “would not be emptied.”

⁴ tn Heb “for what is empty.”

¹ tn Heb “set it upon its coals, empty.”

³ tn Heb “and deprive by emptiness the innocent.”

¹ tn Heb “empty men, sons of wickedness.”

³ tn The form is the adverb “empty.”

¹ tn Heb “and she hurried and emptied.”

¹ tn Heb “As for Egypt, with vanity and emptiness they help.”

² tn Heb “empty things” or “vain things”; NRSV “follows worthless pursuits.”

² tn Heb “who takes up his name to emptiness.”

¹ tn Heb “she will be empty, on the ground she will sit.” Jerusalem is personified as a destitute woman who sits mourning the empty city.

² tn The expression is literally “men of emptiness” (see Ps 26:4). These are false men, for שָׁוְא (shavʾ) can mean “vain, empty, or false, deceitful.”

³ tn The verb רִיק (riq) means “to be empty” in the Qal, and in the Hiphil “to empty.” Here the idea is to unsheathe a sword.

¹ sn What they found was not what they expected—an empty tomb.

² tn Heb “for nothing and emptiness.” Synonyms are combined to emphasize the common idea.

² tn Heb “their statues are wind and nothing”; NASB “wind and emptiness”; NIV “wind and confusion.”