4:12 No, 1 a wind too strong for that will come at my bidding.
Yes, even now I, myself, am calling down judgment on them.’ 2
5:27 Like a cage filled with the birds that have been caught, 3
their houses are filled with the gains of their fraud and deceit. 4
That is how they have gotten so rich and powerful. 5
1 tn The word “No” is not in the text but is carried over from the connection with the preceding line “not for…”
2 tn Heb “will speak judgments against them.”
3 tn The words, “that have been caught” are not in the text but are implicit in the comparison.
4 tn Heb “are filled with deceit.” The translation assumes a figure of speech of cause for effect (metonymy). Compare the same word in the same figure in Zeph 1:9.
5 tn Heb “therefore they have gotten great and rich.”