13:45 “As for the diseased person who has the infection, 2 his clothes must be torn, the hair of his head must be unbound, he must cover his mustache, 3 and he must call out ‘Unclean! Unclean!’
3:7 The prophets 4 will be ashamed;
the omen readers will be humiliated.
All of them will cover their mouths, 5
for they will receive no divine oracles.” 6
1 tn See v. 17.
2 tn Heb “And the diseased one who in him is the infection.”
3 tn Heb “and his head shall be unbound, and he shall cover on [his] mustache.” Tearing one’s clothing, allowing the hair to hang loose rather than bound up in a turban, and covering the mustache on the upper lip are all ways of expressing shame, grief, or distress (cf., e.g., Lev 10:6 and Micah 3:7).
4 tn Or “seers.”
5 tn Or “the mustache,” or perhaps “the beard.” Cf. KJV, NAB, NRSV “cover their lips.”
6 tn Heb “for there will be no answer from God.”