25:9 At that time they will say, 1
“Look, here 2 is our God!
We waited for him and he delivered us.
Here 3 is the Lord! We waited for him.
Let’s rejoice and celebrate his deliverance!”
25:10 For the Lord’s power will make this mountain secure. 4
Moab will be trampled down where it stands, 5
as a heap of straw is trampled down in 6 a manure pile.
1 tn Heb “and one will say in that day.”
2 tn Heb “this [one].”
3 tn Heb “this [one].”
4 tn Heb “for the hand of the Lord will rest on this mountain”; TEV “will protect Mount Zion”; NCV “will protect (rest on NLT) Jerusalem.”
5 tn Heb “under him,” i.e., “in his place.”
6 tc The marginal reading (Qere) is בְּמוֹ (bÿmo, “in”). The consonantal text (Kethib) has בְּמִי (bÿmi, “in the water of”).