32:11 Tremble, you complacent ones!
Shake with fear, you carefree ones!
Strip off your clothes and expose yourselves –
put sackcloth on your waist! 1
33:14 Sinners are afraid in Zion;
panic 2 grips the godless. 3
They say, 4 ‘Who among us can coexist with destructive fire?
Who among us can coexist with unquenchable 5 fire?’
1 tn The imperatival forms in v. 11 are problematic. The first (חִרְדוּ, khirdu, “tremble”) is masculine plural in form, though spoken to a feminine plural addressee (שַׁאֲנַנּוֹת, sha’anannot, “complacent ones”). The four imperatival forms that follow (רְגָזָה, rÿgazah, “shake with fear”; פְּשֹׁטָה, pÿshotah, “strip off your clothes”; עֹרָה, ’orah, “expose yourselves”; and חֲגוֹרָה, khagorah, “put on”) all appear to be lengthened (so-called “emphatic”) masculine singular forms, even though they too appear to be spoken to a feminine plural addressee. GKC 131-32 §48.i suggests emending חִרְדוּ (khirdu) to חֲרָדָה (kharadah) and understanding all five imperatives as feminine plural “aramaized” forms.
2 tn Or “trembling” (ASV, NAB, NASB, NIV, NRSV); NLT “shake with fear.”
3 tn Or “the defiled”; TEV “The sinful people of Zion”; NLT “The sinners in Jerusalem.”
4 tn The words “they say” are supplied in the translation for clarification.
5 tn Or “perpetual”; or “everlasting” (KJV, ASV, NAB, NIV, NRSV).