Isaiah 33:3

33:3 The nations run away when they hear a loud noise; ¹ 

the nations scatter when you spring into action! ² 

Zechariah 14:5

14:5 Then you will escape ³  through my mountain valley, for the mountains will extend to Azal. ⁴  Indeed, you will flee as you fled from the earthquake in the days of King Uzziah ⁵  of Judah. Then the Lord my God will come with all his holy ones with him.

Revelation 6:15-17

6:15 Then ⁶  the kings of the earth, the ⁷  very important people, the generals, ⁸  the rich, the powerful, and everyone, slave ⁹  and free, hid themselves in the caves and among the rocks of the mountains. 6:16 They ¹⁰  said to the mountains and to the rocks, “Fall on us and hide us from the face of the one who is seated on the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb, ¹¹  6:17 because the great day of their ¹²  wrath has come, and who is able to withstand it?” ¹³ 

¹ tn Heb “at the sound of tumult the nations run away.”

² tn Heb “because of your exaltation the nations scatter.”

³ tc For the MT reading נַסְתֶּם (nastem, “you will escape”) the LXX presupposes נִסְתַּם (nistam, “will be stopped up”; this reading is followed by NAB). This appears to derive from a perceived need to eliminate the unexpected “you” as subject. This not only is unnecessary to Hebrew discourse (see “you” in the next clause), but it contradicts the statement in the previous verse that the mountain will be split open, not stopped up.

⁴ sn Azal is a place otherwise unknown.

⁵ sn The earthquake in the days of King Uzziah, also mentioned in Amos 1:1, is apparently the one attested to at Hazor in 760 b.c.

⁶ tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “then” to indicate the implied sequence of events within the vision.

⁷ tn Here καί (kai) has not been translated; nor is it translated before each of the following categories, since English normally uses a coordinating conjunction only between the last two elements in a series of three or more.

⁸ tn Grk “chiliarchs.” A chiliarch was normally a military officer commanding a thousand soldiers, but here probably used of higher-ranking commanders like generals (see L&N 55.15; cf. Rev 6:15).

⁹ tn See the note on the word “servants” in 1:1.

¹⁰ tn Because of the length and complexity of the Greek sentence, a new sentence was started here in the translation. Here καί (kai) has not been translated because of differences between Greek and English style.

¹¹ tn It is difficult to say where this quotation ends. The translation ends it after “withstand it” at the end of v. 17, but it is possible that it should end here, after “Lamb” at the end of v. 16. If it ends after “Lamb,” v. 17 is a parenthetical explanation by the author.

¹² tc Most mss (A Ï bo) change the pronoun “their” to “his” (αὐτοῦ, autou) in order to bring the text in line with the mention of the one seated on the throne in the immediately preceding verse, and to remove the ambiguity about whose wrath is in view here. The reading αὐτῶν (autwn, “their”) is well supported by א C 1611 1854 2053 2329 2344 pc latt sy. On both internal and external grounds, it should be regarded as original.

¹³ tn The translation “to withstand (it)” for ἵστημι (Jisthmi) is based on the imagery of holding one’s ground in a military campaign or an attack (BDAG 482 s.v. B.4).