Discovery Box| (0.30) | (Isa 65:7) | 3 tn Heb “I will measure out their pay [from the] beginning into their lap,” i.e., he will give them everything they have earned. |
| (0.30) | (Isa 60:16) | 1 sn The nations and kings are depicted as a mother nursing her children. Restored Zion will be nourished by them as she receives their wealth as tribute. |
| (0.30) | (Isa 57:11) | 3 sn God’s patience with sinful Israel has caused them to think that they can sin with impunity and suffer no consequences. |
| (0.30) | (Isa 37:12) | 2 tn Heb “Did the gods of the nations whom my fathers destroyed rescue them—Gozan and Haran, and Rezeph and the sons of Eden who are in Telassar?” |
| (0.30) | (Isa 21:5) | 3 sn Smearing the shields with oil would make them more flexible and effective in battle. See J. N. Oswalt, Isaiah (NICOT), 1:394. |
| (0.30) | (Isa 14:2) | 1 tn Heb “and the house of Israel will take possession of them [i.e., the nations], on the land of the Lord, as male servants and female servants.” |
| (0.30) | (Isa 3:20) | 1 tn Heb “houses of breath.” HALOT 124 s.v. בַּיִת defines them as “scent-bottles”; cf. NAB, NRSV “perfume boxes.” |
| (0.30) | (Isa 1:16) | 1 sn Having demonstrated the people’s guilt, the Lord calls them to repentance, which will involve concrete action in the socio-economic realm, not mere emotion. |
| (0.30) | (Pro 31:6) | 1 sn Wine and beer should be given to those distressed and dying in order to ease their suffering and help them forget. |
| (0.30) | (Pro 24:9) | 2 sn This describes evil people who flout all morality and goodness; sooner or later the public will have had enough of them. |
| (0.30) | (Pro 22:18) | 2 tn Heb “keep them,” referring to the words of the wise expressed in these sayings. The referent has been specified in the translation for clarity. |
| (0.30) | (Pro 19:25) | 3 sn The word is related to “shrewdness” (cf. 1:4). The simpleton will learn at least where the traps are and how to avoid them. |
| (0.30) | (Pro 16:1) | 1 sn Humans may set things in order, plan out what they are going to say, but God sovereignly enables them to put their thoughts into words. |
| (0.30) | (Pro 14:19) | 4 tn The adjective is singular. A plurality of people crouching before a single person portrays an even greater extent of difference in power between them. |
| (0.30) | (Pro 13:25) | 3 sn The wicked may go hungry, or lack all they desire, just as the first colon may mean that what the righteous acquire proves satisfying to them. |
| (0.30) | (Pro 13:16) | 1 sn The shrewd person knows the circumstances, dangers and pitfalls that lie ahead. So he deals with them wisely. This makes him cautious. |
| (0.30) | (Pro 11:5) | 2 sn The wicked may think that they can make their way through life easier by their wickedness, but instead it will at some point bring them down. |
| (0.30) | (Psa 140:1) | 1 sn Psalm 140. The psalmist asks God to deliver him from his deadly enemies, calls judgment down upon them, and affirms his confidence in God’s justice. |
| (0.30) | (Psa 119:86) | 1 sn God’s commands are a reliable guide to right and wrong. By keeping them the psalmist is doing what is right, yet he is still persecuted. |
| (0.30) | (Psa 85:8) | 4 tn Or “yet let them not.” After the negative particle אֵל (ʾel), the prefixed verbal form is jussive, indicating the speaker’s desire or wish. |
