26:36 “‘As for 4 the ones who remain among you, I will bring despair into their hearts in the lands of their enemies. The sound of a blowing leaf will pursue them, and they will flee as one who flees the sword and fall down even though there is no pursuer. 26:37 They will stumble over each other as those who flee before a sword, though 5 there is no pursuer, and there will be no one to take a stand 6 for you before your enemies.
1 tn Heb “vengeance of covenant”; cf. NAB “the avenger of my covenant.”
2 tn Heb “and.” The Hebrew conjunction ו (vav, “and”) has a concessive force in this context.
3 tn Heb “in hand of enemy,” but Tg. Ps.-J. and Tg. Neof. have “in the hands of your enemies” (J. E. Hartley, Leviticus [WBC], 454).
4 tn Heb “And.”
7 tn Heb “and.” The Hebrew conjunction ו (vav, “and”) is used in a concessive sense here.
8 tn The term rendered “to stand up” is a noun, not an infinitive. It occurs only here and appears to designate someone who would take a powerful stand for them against their enemies.