33:16 This is the person who will live in a secure place; 6
he will find safety in the rocky, mountain strongholds; 7
he will have food
and a constant supply of water.
3:10 “Bring the entire tithe into the storehouse 8 so that there may be food in my temple. Test me in this matter,” says the Lord who rules over all, “to see if I will not open for you the windows of heaven and pour out for you a blessing until there is no room for it all.
1 tn Heb “will bless the fruit of your womb” (so NAB, NIV, NRSV).
2 sn Come in…go out. To “come in” and “go out” is a figure of speech (merism) indicating all of life and its activities.
3 tn Heb “who rise up against” (so NIV).
4 tn Heb “way” (also later in this verse and in v. 25).
5 tn Heb “the
6 tn Heb “he [in the] exalted places will live.”
7 tn Heb “mountain strongholds, cliffs [will be] his elevated place.”
8 tn The Hebrew phrase בֵּית הָאוֹצָר (bet ha’otsar, here translated “storehouse”) refers to a kind of temple warehouse described more fully in Nehemiah (where the term לִשְׁכָּה גְדוֹלָה [lishkah gÿdolah, “great chamber”] is used) as a place for storing grain, frankincense, temple vessels, wine, and oil (Neh 13:5). Cf. TEV “to the Temple.”