33:17 “Yet your people 5 say, ‘The behavior 6 of the Lord is not right,’ 7 when it is their behavior that is not right.
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 “their way on their head I have placed.” The same expression occurs in 1 Kgs 8:32; Ezek 11:21; 16:43; 22:31.
3 tn Heb “their way on their head I have placed.”
5 tn Heb “their way on their head I have placed.”
7 tn Heb “the sons of your people.”
8 tn Heb “way.”
9 tn The Hebrew verb translated “is (not) right” has the basic meaning of “to measure.” For a similar concept, see Ezek 18:25, 29.