65:15 Your names will live on in the curse formulas of my chosen ones. 1
The sovereign Lord will kill you,
but he will give his servants another name.
1 tn Heb “you will leave your name for an oath to my chosen ones.”
2 sn Being roasted to death in the fire appears to have been a common method of execution in Babylon. See Dan 3:6, 19-21. The famous law code of the Babylonian king Hammurabi also mandated this method of execution for various crimes a thousand years earlier. There is a satirical play on words involving their fate, “roasted them to death” (קָלָם, qalam), and the fact that that fate would become a common topic of curse (קְלָלָה, qÿlalah) pronounced on others in Babylon.