(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) | (Jer 3:19) | 3 tn The words “What a joy it would be for me to” are not in the Hebrew text but are implied in the parallel structure. |
(0.30) | (Jer 2:20) | 2 tn Heb “you broke your yoke…tore off your yoke ropes.” The metaphor is that of a recalcitrant ox or heifer which has broken free from its master. |
(0.30) | (Jer 2:7) | 4 sn The land belonged to the Lord; it was given to the Israelites in trust (or usufruct) as their heritage. See Lev 25:23. |
(0.30) | (Jer 2:7) | 3 sn I.e., made it ceremonially unclean. See Lev 18:19-30; Num 35:34; Deut 21:23. |
(0.30) | (Isa 66:20) | 3 tn The precise meaning of this word is uncertain. Some suggest it refers to “chariots.” See HALOT 498 s.v. *כִּרְכָּרָה. |
(0.30) | (Isa 65:10) | 2 sn The Valley of Achor (“Achor” means “trouble” in Hebrew) was the site of Achan’s execution. It was located to the east, near Jericho. |
(0.30) | (Isa 59:19) | 5 tn Heb “the wind of the Lord drives it on.” The term רוּחַ (ruakh) could be translated “breath” here (see 30:28). |
(0.30) | (Isa 55:13) | 1 tn Heb “to the Lord for a name.” For שֵׁם (shem) used in the sense of “monument,” see also 56:5, where it stands parallel to יָד (yad). |
(0.30) | (Isa 54:15) | 2 tn Heb “will fall over you.” The expression נָפַל עַל (nafal ʿal) can mean “attack,” but here it means “fall over to,” i.e., “surrender to.” |
(0.30) | (Isa 53:11) | 2 sn The song ends as it began (cf. 52:13-15), with the Lord announcing the servant’s vindication and exaltation. |
(0.30) | (Isa 53:4) | 1 sn Illness and pain stand by metonymy (or perhaps as metaphors) for sin and its effects, as vv. 11-12 make clear. |
(0.30) | (Isa 51:9) | 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. |
(0.30) | (Isa 49:8) | 1 tn The translation assumes the verb is derived from the root נָצָר (natsar, “protect”). Some prefer to derive it from the root יָצָר (yatsar, “form”). |
(0.30) | (Isa 49:6) | 2 sn The question is purely rhetorical; it does not imply that the servant was dissatisfied with his commission or that he minimized the restoration of Israel. |
(0.30) | (Isa 49:5) | 3 tn The vav (ו) + imperfect is translated here as a result clause; one might interpret it as indicating purpose, “and so I might be honored.” |
(0.30) | (Isa 48:11) | 2 tn The Hebrew text reads literally, “for how can it be defiled?” The subject of the verb is probably “name” (v. 9). |
(0.30) | (Isa 45:9) | 5 tn Heb “your work, there are no hands for it,” i.e., “your work looks like something made by a person who has no hands.” |
(0.30) | (Isa 44:14) | 1 tn It is not certain what type of tree this otherwise unattested noun refers to. Cf. ASV “a holm-tree” (NRSV similar). |
(0.30) | (Isa 42:25) | 4 sn It is not that he did not know about the war, but he did not attribute this to God’s wrath. |