8:12 Are they ashamed because they have done such disgusting things?
No, they are not at all ashamed!
They do not even know how to blush!
So they will die just like others have died. 1
They will be brought to ruin when I punish them,
says the Lord.
10:3 What will you do on judgment day, 5
when destruction arrives from a distant place?
To whom will you run for help?
Where will you leave your wealth?
1 tn Heb “They will fall among the fallen.”
2 tn Heb “There will be no survivors for/among them.”
3 tn Heb “the men of Anathoth.” For the rationale for adding the qualification see the notes on v. 21.
4 tn Heb “I will bring disaster on…, the year of their punishment.”
5 tn Heb “the day of visitation” (so KJV, ASV), that is, the day when God arrives to execute justice on the oppressors.
6 tn Or “of punishment.” This is a time of judgment.
7 tn The passive construction with the infinitive πλησθῆναι (plhsqhnai) has been translated as an active construction for simplicity, in keeping with contemporary English style.
8 tn Grk “hardness.” Concerning this imagery, see Jer 4:4; Ezek 3:7; 1 En. 16:3.
9 tn Grk “in the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God.”