32:42 I will make my arrows drunk with blood,
and my sword will devour flesh –
the blood of the slaughtered and captured,
the chief 1 of the enemy’s leaders!’”
32:2 My teaching will drop like the rain,
my sayings will drip like the dew, 2
as rain drops upon the grass,
and showers upon new growth.
2:26 Then I sent messengers from the Kedemoth 3 Desert to King Sihon of Heshbon with an offer of peace:
31:8 Assyria will fall by a sword, but not one human-made; 4
a sword not made by humankind will destroy them. 5
They will run away from this sword 6
and their young men will be forced to do hard labor.
1 tn Or “head” (the same Hebrew word can mean “head” in the sense of “leader, chieftain” or “head” in the sense of body part).
2 tn Or “mist,” “light drizzle.” In some contexts the term appears to refer to light rain, rather than dew.
3 sn Kedemoth. This is probably Aleiyan, about 8 mi (13 km) north of the Arnon and between Dibon and Mattanah.
4 tn Heb “Assyria will fall by a sword, not of a man.”
5 tn Heb “and a sword not of humankind will devour him.”
6 tn Heb “he will flee for himself from before a sword.”