23:7 Is this really your boisterous city 1
whose origins are in the distant past, 2
and whose feet led her to a distant land to reside?
37:26 3 Certainly you must have heard! 4
Long ago I worked it out,
in ancient times I planned 5 it,
and now I am bringing it to pass.
The plan is this:
Fortified cities will crash
into heaps of ruins. 6
1 tn Heb “Is this to you, boisterous one?” The pronoun “you” is masculine plural, like the imperatives in v. 6, so it is likely addressed to the Egyptians and residents of the coast. “Boisterous one” is a feminine singular form, probably referring to the personified city of Tyre.
2 tn Heb “in the days of antiquity [is] her beginning.”
3 tn Having quoted the Assyrian king’s arrogant words in vv. 23-24, the Lord now speaks to the king.
4 tn Heb “Have you not heard?” The rhetorical question expresses the Lord’s amazement that anyone might be ignorant of what he is about to say.
5 tn Heb “formed” (so KJV, ASV).
6 tn Heb “and it is to cause to crash into heaps of ruins fortified cities.” The subject of the third feminine singular verb תְהִי (tÿhi) is the implied plan, referred to in the preceding lines with third feminine singular pronominal suffixes.
5 tn Heb “To your master and to you did my master send me to speak these words?” The rhetorical question expects a negative answer.
6 tn Heb “[Is it] not [also] to the men…?” The rhetorical question expects the answer, “Yes, it is.”