18:22 Let cries of terror be heard in their houses
when you send bands of raiders unexpectedly to plunder them. 1
For they have virtually dug a pit to capture me
and have hidden traps for me to step into.
20:16 May that man be like the cities 2
that the Lord destroyed without showing any mercy.
May he hear a cry of distress in the morning
and a battle cry at noon.
1 tn Heb “when you bring marauders in against them.” For the use of the noun translated here “bands of raiders to plunder them” see 1 Sam 30:3, 15, 23 and BDB 151 s.v. גְּדוּד 1.
2 sn The cities alluded to are Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities of the Jordan plain which had become proverbial for their wickedness and for the destruction that the