1:17 The grains of seed 1 have shriveled beneath their shovels. 2
Storehouses have been decimated
and granaries have been torn down, for the grain has dried up.
3:4 Why are you doing these things to me, Tyre and Sidon? 3
Are you trying to get even with me, land of Philistia? 4
I will very quickly repay you for what you have done! 5
2:32 It will so happen that
everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be delivered. 6
For on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem 7 there will be those who survive, 8
just as the Lord has promised;
the remnant 9 will be those whom the Lord will call. 10
1 tn Heb “seed.” The phrase “the grains of” does not appear in the Hebrew, but has been supplied in the translation for the sake of clarity and smoothness.
2 tc This line is textually uncertain. The MT reads “the seed shrivels in their shovels/clods.” One Qumran manuscript (4QXXIIc) reads “the heifers decay in [their] s[talls].” LXX reads “the heifers leap in their stalls.”
3 tn Heb “What [are] you [doing] to me, O Tyre and Sidon?”
4 tn Or “districts.”
5 tn Heb “quickly, speedily, I will return your recompense on your head.” This is an idiom for retributive justice and an equitable reversal of situation.
5 tn While a number of English versions render this as “saved” (e.g., NIV, NRSV, NLT), this can suggest a “spiritual” or “theological” salvation rather than the physical deliverance from the cataclysmic events of the day of the Lord described in the context.
6 map For location see Map5-B1; Map6-F3; Map7-E2; Map8-F2; Map10-B3; JP1-F4; JP2-F4; JP3-F4; JP4-F4.
7 tn Heb “deliverance”; or “escape.” The abstract noun “deliverance” or “escape” probably functions here as an example of antimeria, referring to those who experience deliverance or escape with their lives: “escaped remnant” or “surviving remnant” (Gen 32:8; 45:7; Judg 21:17; 2 Kgs 19:30, 31; Isa 4:2; 10:20; 15:9; 37:31, 32; Ezek 14:22; Obad 1:17; Ezra 9:8, 13-15; Neh 1:2; 1 Chr 4:43; 2 Chr 30:6).
8 tn Heb “and among the remnant.”
9 tn The participle used in the Hebrew text seems to indicate action in the imminent future.