49:18 Look all around you! 2
All of them gather to you.
As surely as I live,” says the Lord,
“you will certainly wear all of them like jewelry;
you will put them on as if you were a bride.
46:18 I the King, whose name is the Lord who rules over all, 3 swear this:
I swear as surely as I live that 4 a conqueror is coming.
He will be as imposing as Mount Tabor is among the mountains,
as Mount Carmel is against the backdrop of the sea. 5
1 sn This is the oath formula, but in the Pentateuch it occurs here and in v. 28.
2 tn Heb “Lift up around your eyes and see.”
3 tn Heb “Yahweh of armies.” For the significance of this title see the note at 2:19.
4 tn Heb “As I live, oracle of the King, whose….” The indirect quote has been chosen to create a smoother English sentence and avoid embedding a quote within a quote.
5 tn Heb “Like Tabor among the mountains and like Carmel by the sea he will come.” The addition of “conqueror” and “imposing” are implicit from the context and from the metaphor. They have been supplied in the translation to give the reader some idea of the meaning of the verse.
6 sn A quotation from Isa 45:23.