26:20 Go, my people! Enter your inner rooms!
Close your doors behind you!
Hide for a little while,
until his angry judgment is over! 1
47:9 Both of these will come upon you
suddenly, in one day!
You will lose your children and be widowed. 2
You will be overwhelmed by these tragedies, 3
despite 4 your many incantations
and your numerous amulets. 5
1 tn Heb “until anger passes by.”
2 tn Heb “loss of children and widowhood.” In the Hebrew text the phrase is in apposition to “both of these” in line 1.
3 tn Heb “according to their fullness, they will come upon you.”
4 tn For other examples of the preposition bet (בְּ) having the sense of “although, despite,” see BDB 90 s.v. III.7.
5 sn Reference is made to incantations and amulets, both of which were important in Mesopotamian religion. They were used to ward off danger and demons.