³ tn Grk “because you are closing the kingdom of heaven before people.”

² sn Seeking heavenly treasure means serving others and honoring God by doing so.

¹ tn Heb “all these.” The phrase refers to the heavens and earth, mentioned in the previous verse.

² tn The words “heavenly lights” are supplied in the translation for clarification. See the following lines.

³ tn Heb “on high” (so KJV, NAB, NASB, NIV, NRSV); CEV “in the heavens.”

² tn Heb “may the Lord bless you from Zion, the maker of heaven and earth.”

¹ tn Heb “for great upon the sky [or “heavens”] [is] your loyal love.”

¹ tn Heb “for great upon the sky [or “heavens”] [is] your loyal love.”

¹ tn Heb “their.” The antecedent of the plural pronoun is “heavens” (v. 1).

¹ tn Heb “from the end of the heavens [is] its going forth.”

¹ tn The Hebrew says “heights of heaven, what can you do?” A. B. Davidson suggested this was an exclamation and should be left that way. But most commentators will repoint גָּבְהֵי שָׁמַיִם (govhe shamayim, “heights of heaven”) to גְּבֹהָה מִשָּׁמַיִם (g^evohah mishamayim, “higher than the heavens”) to match the parallel expression. The LXX may have rearranged the text: “heaven is high.”

¹ tn Heb “and you killed them with anger [that] reaches as far as heaven.”

¹ tc The MT reads “Your.” The LXX reads “Heaven will be to you.”

¹ tn Heb “like the days of the heavens upon the earth,” that is, forever.

³ tn The terms translated “heaven” and “earth” are both objective genitives after the participle in construct.

¹ tn See the note on the phrase “the heavens and the earth” in 1:1.

² tn See the note on the phrase “the heavens and the earth” in 1:1.

¹ tn Though the Hebrew word can mean “heaven,” it refers in this context to “the sky.”

¹ tn Or “in the heaven.” The Greek word οὐρανός (ouranos) may be translated “sky” or “heaven” depending on the context. Here, in contrast to “the earth below,” a reference to the sky is more likely.

¹ tn The words “to heaven” are not in the Greek text, but are supplied from v. 11. Several modern translations (NIV, NRSV) supply the words “to heaven” after “taken up” to specify the destination explicitly mentioned later in 1:11.