27:26 Your rowers have brought you into surging waters.
The east wind has wrecked you in the heart of the seas.
44:1 Then he brought me back by way of the outer gate of the sanctuary which faces east, but it was shut.
44:20 “‘They must not shave their heads 4 nor let their hair grow long; 5 they must only trim their heads.
1 tn Heb “They each went in the direction of one of his faces.”
2 tn Heb “Chaldea.” The name of the tribal group ruling Babylon (“Chaldeans”) and the territory from which they originated (“Chaldea”) is used as metonymy for the whole empire of Babylon.
3 tn Heb “outside.”
4 sn The shaving of the head was associated with mourning (Ezek 7:18).
5 sn Letting the hair grow was associated with the taking of a vow (Num 6:5; Acts 21:23-26).