9:11 Next I noticed the man dressed in linen with the writing kit at his side bringing back word: “I have done just as you commanded me.”
17:19 “‘Therefore this is what the sovereign Lord says: As surely as I live, I will certainly repay him 2 for despising my oath and breaking my covenant!
23:28 “For this is what the sovereign Lord says: Look here, 11 I am about to deliver you over to 12 those whom you hate, to those with whom you were disgusted.
39:21 “I will display my majesty 16 among the nations. All the nations will witness the judgment I have executed, and the power I have exhibited 17 among them.
44:10 “‘But the Levites who went far from me, straying off from me after their idols when Israel went astray, will be responsible for 20 their sin.
1 tn Or “abominable idols.”
2 tn Heb “place it on his head.”
3 tn Heb “for the sake of my name.”
4 tn Heb “before the eyes of the nations in whose midst they were.”
5 tn Heb “to whom I made myself known before their eyes to bring them out from the land of Egypt.” The translation understands the infinitive construct (“to bring them out”) as indicating manner. God’s deliverance of his people from Egypt was an act of self-revelation in that it displayed his power and his commitment to his promises.
4 tn Or “gifts.”
5 sn This act is prohibited in Deut 12:29-31 and Jer 7:31; 19:5; 32:35. See also 2 Kgs 21:6; 23:10. This custom indicates that the laws the Israelites were following were the disastrous laws of pagan nations (see Ezek 16:20-21).
6 sn God sometimes punishes sin by inciting the sinner to sin even more, as the biblical examples of divine hardening and deceit make clear. See Robert B. Chisholm, Jr., “Divine Hardening in the Old Testament,” BSac 153 (1996): 410-34; idem, “Does God Deceive?” BSac 155 (1998): 11-28. For other instances where the Lord causes individuals to act unwisely or even sinfully as punishment for sin, see 1 Sam 2:25; 2 Sam 17:14; 1 Kgs 12:15; 2 Chr 25:20.
5 tn Heb “ways.”
6 tn Heb “loathe yourselves in your faces.”
6 tn The word הִנֵּה (hinneh, traditionally “behold”) indicates becoming aware of something and has been translated here as a verb.
7 tn Heb “I am giving you into the hand of.”
7 tn Heb “for which he worked,” referring to the assault on Tyre (v. 18).
8 tn Heb “whose.”
9 tn The only other occurrence of the phrase “remote slopes of the pit” is in Isa 14:15.
9 tn Or “my glory.”
10 tn Heb “my hand which I have placed.”
10 tn Heb “five cubits” (i.e., 2.625 meters).
11 tn Heb “twenty cubits” (i.e., 10.5 meters).
12 tn Heb “will bear.”
13 tn Heb “strayed off.”