26:18 “‘If, in spite of all these things, 1 you do not obey me, I will discipline you seven times more on account of your sins. 2
26:21 “‘If you walk in hostility against me 3 and are not willing to obey me, I will increase your affliction 4 seven times according to your sins.
9:13 “Everything that has happened to us has come about because of our wicked actions and our great guilt. Even so, our God, you have exercised restraint 7 toward our iniquities and have given us a remnant such as this.
1 tn Heb “And if until these.”
2 tn Heb “I will add to discipline you seven [times] on your sins.”
3 tn Heb “hostile with me,” but see the added preposition בְּ (bet) on the phrase “in hostility” in v. 24 and 27.
4 tn Heb “your blow, stroke”; cf. TEV “punishment”; NLT “I will inflict you with seven more disasters.”
5 tn Heb “and I myself will also strike you.”
6 tn Heb “in rage of hostility with you”; NASB “with wrathful hostility”; NRSV “I will continue hostile to you in fury”; CEV “I’ll get really furious.”
7 tn Heb “held back downwards from”; KJV “hast punished us less than our iniquities deserve” (NIV, NRSV, NLT all similar).