9:4 Even when their enemies drive them into captivity, 1
from there 2 I will command the sword to kill them.
I will not let them out of my sight;
they will experience disaster, not prosperity.” 3
4:10 “I sent against you a plague like one of the Egyptian plagues. 4
I killed your young men with the sword,
along with the horses you had captured.
I made the stench from the corpses 5 rise up into your nostrils.
Still you did not come back to me.”
The Lord is speaking!
1 tn Heb “Even if they go into captivity before their enemies.”
2 tn Or perhaps simply, “there,” if the מ (mem) prefixed to the adverb is dittographic (note the preceding word ends in mem).
3 tn Heb “I will set my eye on them for disaster, not good.”
4 tn Heb “in the manner [or “way”] of Egypt.”
5 tn Heb “of your camps [or “armies”].”