3:6 If an alarm sounds 1 in a city, do people not fear? 2
If disaster overtakes a 3 city, is the Lord not responsible? 4
5:8 (But there is one who made the constellations Pleiades and Orion;
he can turn the darkness into morning
and daylight 5 into night.
He summons the water of the seas
and pours it out on the earth’s surface.
The Lord is his name!
9:12 As a result they 6 will conquer those left in Edom 7
and all the nations subject to my rule.” 8
The Lord, who is about to do this, is speaking!
1 tn Heb “If the ram’s horn is blown.”
2 tn Or “tremble” (NASB, NIV, NCV); or “shake.”
3 tn Heb “is in”; NIV, NCV, NLT “comes to.”
4 tn Heb “has the
5 tn Heb “darkens the day into night.”
9 sn They probably refers to the Israelites or to the Davidic rulers of the future.
10 tn Heb “take possession of the remnant of Edom”; NASB, NIV, NRSV “possess the remnant of Edom.”
11 tn Heb “nations over whom my name is proclaimed.” The Hebrew idiom indicates ownership, sometimes as a result of conquest. See 2 Sam 12:28.