2:5 Therefore no one will assign you land in the Lord’s community. 1
2:10 But you are the ones who will be forced to leave! 2
For this land is not secure! 3
Sin will thoroughly destroy it! 4
4:12 But they do not know what the Lord is planning;
they do not understand his strategy.
He has gathered them like stalks of grain to be threshed 5 at the threshing floor.
5:15 I will angrily seek vengeance
on the nations that do not obey me.” 6
1 tn Heb “therefore you will not have one who strings out a measuring line by lot in the assembly of the
2 tn Heb “Arise and go!” These imperatives are rhetorical. Those who wrongly drove widows and orphans from their homes and land inheritances will themselves be driven out of the land (cf. Isa 5:8-17). This is an example of poetic justice.
3 tn Heb “for this is no resting place.” The
4 tn Heb “uncleanness will destroy, and destruction will be severe.”
3 tn The words “to be threshed” are not in the Hebrew text, but have been supplied in the translation to make it clear that the
4 tn Heb “I will accomplish in anger and in rage, vengeance on the nations who do not listen.”