49:30 The Lord says, 1 “Flee quickly, you who live in Hazor. 2
Take up refuge in remote places. 3
For King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon has laid out plans to attack you.
He has formed his strategy on how to defeat you.” 4
49:33 “Hazor will become a permanent wasteland,
a place where only jackals live. 5
No one will live there.
No human being will settle in it.” 6
1 tn Heb “Oracle of the
2 map For location see Map1-D2; Map2-D3; Map3-A2; Map4-C1.
3 tn Heb “Make deep to dwell.” See Jer 49:8 and the translator’s note there. The use of this same phrase here argues against the alternative there of going down from a height and going back home.
4 tn Heb “has counseled a counsel against you, has planned a plan against you.”
5 sn Compare Jer 9:11.
6 sn Compare Jer 49:18 and 50:40 where the same thing is said about Edom and Babylon.