9:5 While I listened, he said to the others, 4 “Go through the city after him and strike people down; do no let your eye pity nor spare 5 anyone!
9:7 He said to them, “Defile the temple and fill the courtyards with corpses. Go!” So they went out and struck people down throughout the city.
21:17 I too will clap my hands together,
I will exhaust my rage;
I the Lord have spoken.”
32:15 When I turn the land of Egypt into desolation
and the land is destitute of everything that fills it,
when I strike all those who live in it,
then they will know that I am the Lord.’
33:21 In the twelfth year of our exile, in the tenth month, on the fifth of the month, 6 a refugee came to me from Jerusalem 7 saying, “The city has been defeated!” 8
1 tn The meaning of the Hebrew term is primarily emotional: “to pity,” which in context implies an action, as in being moved by pity in order to spare them from the horror of their punishment.
2 tn Heb “According to your behavior I will place on you.”
3 tn The MT lacks “you.” It has been added for clarification.
4 tn Heb “to these he said in my ears.”
5 tn The meaning of the Hebrew term is primarily emotional: “to pity,” which in context implies an action, as in being moved by pity in order to spare them from the horror of their punishment.
7 tn January 19, 585
8 map For location see Map5-B1; Map6-F3; Map7-E2; Map8-F2; Map10-B3; JP1-F4; JP2-F4; JP3-F4; JP4-F4.
9 tn Heb “smitten.”