Micah 6:14
Context| NETBible | You will eat, but not be satisfied. Even if you have the strength 1 to overtake some prey, 2 you will not be able to carry it away; 3 if you do happen to carry away something, I will deliver it over to the sword. |
| XREF | Le 26:26; De 32:22-25; Isa 3:6-8; Isa 24:17-20; Isa 65:13; Jer 48:44; Eze 4:16,17; Eze 5:12; Ho 4:10; Am 2:14-16; Am 9:1-4; Hag 1:6; Hag 2:16 |
| NET © Notes |
1 tc The first Hebrew term in the line (וְיֶשְׁחֲךָ, vÿyeshkhakha) is obscure. HALOT 446 s.v. יֶשַׁח understands a noun meaning “filth,” which would yield the translation, “and your filth is inside you.” The translation assumes an emendation to כֹּחַ-וְיֶשׁ (vÿyesh-koakh, “and [if] there is strength inside you”). 2 tn The meaning of the Hebrew term וְתַסֵּג (vÿtasseg) is unclear. The translation assumes it is a Hiphal imperfect from נָסַג/נָשַׂג (nasag/nasag, “reach; overtake”) and that hunting imagery is employed. (Note the reference to hunger in the first line of the verse.) See D. R. Hillers, Micah (Hermeneia), 80. 3 tn The Hiphal of פָּלַט (palat) is used in Isa 5:29 of an animal carrying its prey to a secure place. |
