28:23 I will send a plague into the city 1 and bloodshed into its streets;
the slain will fall within it, by the sword that attacks it 2 from every side.
Then they will know that I am the Lord.
28:24 “‘No longer will Israel suffer from the sharp briers 3 or painful thorns of all who surround and scorn them. 4 Then they will know that I am the sovereign Lord.
28:25 “‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: When I regather the house of Israel from the peoples where they are dispersed, I will reveal my sovereign power 5 over them in the sight of the nations, and they will live in their land that I gave to my servant Jacob. 28:26 They will live securely in it; they will build houses and plant vineyards. They will live securely 6 when I execute my judgments on all those who scorn them and surround them. Then they will know that I am the Lord their God.’”
1 tn Heb “into it”; the referent of the feminine pronoun has been specified in the translation for clarity.
2 tn Heb “by a sword against it.”
3 sn Similar language is used in reference to Israel’s adversaries in Num 33:55; Josh 23:13.
4 tn Heb “and there will not be for the house of Israel a brier that pricks and a thorn that inflicts pain from all the ones who surround them, the ones who scorn them.”
5 tn Or “reveal my holiness.” See verse 22.
6 sn This promise was given in Lev 25:18-19.