¹ sn I will also give your camels water. It would be an enormous test for a young woman to water ten camels. The idea is that such a woman would not only be industrious but hospitable and generous.

¹ tn Some (e.g., NIV) translate the preterite verb forms in this verse as past perfects (e.g., “had been closed”), for it seems likely that the sources of the water would have stopped before the waters receded.

¹ tn The Hebrew word refers to an expanse of air pressure between the surface of the sea and the clouds, separating water below from water above. In v. 8 it is called “sky.”

³ tn Grk “and its water was dried up.” Here the passive construction has been translated as an active one.

⁴ tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “so” to indicate the implied result of the star falling on the waters.

⁵ tn This included both food and drink (γεύομαι [geuomai] is used of water turned to wine in John 2:9).

¹ tn Heb “a heavy rain of waters passes by.” Perhaps the flash floods produced by the downpour are in view here.

³ tn Heb “not a hunger for food or a thirst for water, but for hearing the words of the Lord.”

¹ tn Heb “Will you be to me like a deceptive (brook), like waters which do not last [or are not reliable].”

¹ tn The Qumran scroll 1QIsa^a has מי ים (“waters of the sea”), a reading followed by NAB.

¹ sn Water is here a metaphor for renewed life; the springs symbolize the restoration of God’s favor.

¹ tn Heb “they have poured out their blood like water, all around Jerusalem, and there is no one burying.”

¹ tn The waters of the Red Sea are here personified; they are portrayed as seeing God and fearing him.

² sn Man commits evil with the same ease and facility as he drinks in water—freely and in large quantities.

³ tn The imperfect verb here is the modal use of potential, “can wither away” if the water is not there.

² tn Heb “who poured water on the hands of Elijah.” This refers to one of the typical tasks of a servant.

¹ tn The elliptical Hebrew text reads literally “and the Lord will strike Israel as a reed sways in the water.”

¹ tn The MT does not include “water” though it is implied and included in the LXX and Syriac versions.

² tn Heb “and the waters of the Jordan returned to their place and went as formerly over their banks.”

² tn Heb “in the water, in the seas and in the streams” (see also vv. 10 and 12).