5:9 Lift your hand triumphantly against your adversaries; 1
may all your enemies be destroyed! 2
5:10 “In that day,” says the Lord,
“I will destroy 3 your horses from your midst,
and smash your chariots.
5:11 I will destroy the cities of your land,
and tear down all your fortresses.
5:12 I will remove the sorcery 4 that you practice, 5
and you will no longer have omen readers living among you. 6
5:13 I will remove your idols and sacred pillars from your midst;
you will no longer worship what your own hands made.
1 tn Heb “let your hand be lifted against your adversaries.”
2 tn Heb “be cut off.”
3 tn Heb “cut off” (also in the following verse).
5 tn Heb “magic charms” (so NCV, TEV); NIV, NLT “witchcraft”; NAB “the means of divination.” The precise meaning of this Hebrew word is uncertain, but note its use in Isa 47:9, 12.
6 tn Heb “from your hands.”
7 tn Heb “and you will not have omen-readers.”