² tn Heb “run.” The verb רוּץ (ruts, “run”) functions here as a metonymy of association, meaning “to be eager” to do something (BDB 930 s.v.).

² tn Heb “Tearing [my eye] will tear and my eye will run down [= flow] with tears.”

³ tn Heb “each one of them turns aside into their own running course.”

² tn Heb “will fall” (so KJV, NIV, NRSV); NLT “will be run through with a sword.”

¹ tn Heb “lift up your steps to,” which may mean “run, hurry.”

¹ tn This is understood because the conditional clauses seem to run to the apodosis in v. 15.

² tn Heb “and open the door and run away and do not delay.”

³ tn If Jacob stayed, he would be killed and Esau would be forced to run away.

² tn Or “the people formed a mob.” BDAG 967 s.v. συνδρομή has “formation of a mob by pers. running together, running together…ἐγένετο σ. τοῦ λαοῦ the people rushed together Ac 21:30.”

² tn Grk “So then, [it does] not [depend] on the one who desires nor on the one who runs.”

² tn The term “run” does not appear in the Hebrew text, but is supplied for the sake of clarification.

³ tn Heb “causes its hands to run,” which must mean “quickly stretches out its hands” (to present tribute).

⁴ tn BDAG 308 s.v. ἐκπίπτω 2 states, “drift off course, run aground, nautical term εἴς τι on someth….on the Syrtis 27:17.”

² tn Grk “And Martha.” The connective καί (kai, “and”) has been omitted in the translation because it would produce a run-on sentence in English.

² sn The reference to Moses and all the prophets is a way to say the promise of Messiah runs throughout OT scripture from first to last.

² sn This is one of the few uses of the specific term salvation in Luke (1:69, 71, 77), though the concept runs throughout the Gospel.

³ tn Heb “and each of you runs to his own house”; NIV “is busy with”; TEV “is busy working on”; NCV “work hard for.”

³ sn The Kidron Valley is the valley that joins the Hinnom Valley in the southeastern corner of the city and runs northward on the east side of the city.

¹ tn Heb “a nation,” but the singular is collective here, as the plural verbs in the next line indicate (note that both “know” and “run” are third plural forms).

⁴ sn The metaphor of “running” to the Lord refers to a whole-hearted and unwavering trust in God’s protection (e.g., Isa 40:31).