57:7 On every high, elevated hill you prepare your bed;
you go up there to offer sacrifices.
34:6 The Lord’s sword is dripping with blood,
it is covered 4 with fat;
it drips 5 with the blood of young rams and goats
and is covered 6 with the fat of rams’ kidneys.
For the Lord is holding a sacrifice 7 in Bozrah, 8
a bloody 9 slaughter in the land of Edom.
1 tn Heb “Egypt.” For stylistic reasons, to avoid redundancy, the present translation uses the pronoun (“they”) here.
2 tn Heb “will know the Lord.”
3 tn Heb “in that day” (so KJV), likewise at the beginning of vv. 23 and 24.
1 tn The verb is a rare Hotpaal passive form. See GKC 150 §54.h.
2 tn The words “it drips” are supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons.
3 tn The words “and is covered” are supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons.
4 tn Heb “for there is a sacrifice to the Lord.”
5 sn The Lord’s judgment of Edom is compared to a bloody sacrificial scene.
6 tn Heb “great” (so KJV, NAB, NASB, NIV, NRSV).