21:7 When he sees chariots,
teams of horses, 1
riders on donkeys,
riders on camels,
he must be alert,
very alert.”
49:16 Look, I have inscribed your name 2 on my palms;
your walls are constantly before me.
65:7 for your sins and your ancestors’ sins,” 3 says the Lord.
“Because they burned incense on the mountains
and offended 4 me on the hills,
I will punish them in full measure.” 5
1 tn Or “a pair of horsemen.”
2 tn Heb “you.” Here the pronoun is put by metonymy for the person’s name.
3 tn Heb “the iniquities of your fathers.”
4 tn Or perhaps, “taunted”; KJV “blasphemed”; NAB “disgraced”; NASB “scorned”; NIV “defied”; NRSV “reviled.”
5 tn Heb “I will measure out their pay [from the] beginning into their lap,” i.e., he will give them everything they have earned.