29:4 I will put hooks in your jaws
and stick the fish of your waterways to your scales.
I will haul you up from the midst of your waterways,
and all the fish of your waterways will stick to your scales.
29:5 I will leave you in the wilderness,
you and all the fish of your waterways;
you will fall in the open field and will not be gathered up or collected. 2
I have given you as food to the beasts of the earth and the birds of the skies.
1 sn The Great Sea refers to the Mediterranean Sea (also in vv. 15, 19, 20).
1 tc Some Hebrew
1 tn Heb “two rivers,” perhaps under the influence of Zech 14:8. The translation follows the LXX and other ancient versions in reading the singular, which is demanded by the context (see vv. 5-7, 9b, 12).
2 tn Heb “will be healed.”