Numbers 32:14

32:14 Now look, you are standing in your fathers’ place, a brood of sinners, to increase still further the fierce wrath of the Lord against the Israelites.

Numbers 32:2

32:2 the Gadites and the Reubenites came and addressed Moses, Eleazar the priest, and the leaders of the community. They said,

Numbers 28:13

28:13 and one-tenth of an ephah of finely ground flour mixed with olive oil as a grain offering for each lamb, as a burnt offering for a pleasing aroma, an offering made by fire to the Lord.

Numbers 33:23

33:23 They traveled from Kehelathah and camped at Mount Shepher.

Isaiah 1:5

1:5 ¹ Why do you insist on being battered?

Why do you continue to rebel? ² 

Your head has a massive wound, ³ 

your whole body is weak. ⁴ 

Isaiah 30:1

Egypt Will Prove Unreliable

30:1 “The rebellious ⁵  children are as good as dead,” ⁶  says the Lord,

“those who make plans without consulting me, ⁷ 

who form alliances without consulting my Spirit, ⁸ 

and thereby compound their sin. ⁹ 

Romans 2:5

2:5 But because of your stubbornness ¹⁰  and your unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath for yourselves in the day of wrath, when God’s righteous judgment is revealed! ¹¹ 

Romans 2:2

2:2 Now we know that God’s judgment is in accordance with truth ¹²  against those who practice such things.

Romans 3:13

3:13 “Their throats are open graves, ¹³ 

they deceive with their tongues,

the poison of asps is under their lips.” ¹⁴ 

¹ sn In vv. 5-9 Isaiah addresses the battered nation (5-8) and speaks as their representative (9).

² tn Heb “Why are you still beaten? [Why] do you continue rebellion?” The rhetorical questions express the prophet’s disbelief over Israel’s apparent masochism and obsession with sin. The interrogative construction in the first line does double duty in the parallelism. H. Wildberger (Isaiah, 1:18) offers another alternative by translating the two statements with one question: “Why do you still wish to be struck that you persist in revolt?”

³ tn Heb “all the head is ill”; NRSV “the whole head is sick”; CEV “Your head is badly bruised.”

⁴ tn Heb “and all the heart is faint.” The “heart” here stands for bodily strength and energy, as suggested by the context and usage elsewhere (see Jer 8:18; Lam 1:22).

⁵ tn Or “stubborn” (NCV); cf. NIV “obstinate.”

⁶ tn Heb “Woe [to] rebellious children.”

⁷ tn Heb “making a plan, but not from me.”

⁸ tn Heb “and pouring out a libation, but not [from] my spirit.” This translation assumes that the verb נָסַךְ (nasakh) means “pour out,” and that the cognate noun מַסֵּכָה (massekhah) means “libation.” In this case “pouring out a libation” alludes to a ceremony that formally ratifies an alliance. Another option is to understand the verb נָסַךְ as a homonym meaning “weave,” and the cognate noun מַסֵּכָה as a homonym meaning “covering.” In this case forming an alliance is likened to weaving a garment.

⁹ tn Heb “consequently adding sin to sin.”

¹⁰ tn Grk “hardness.” Concerning this imagery, see Jer 4:4; Ezek 3:7; 1 En. 16:3.

¹¹ tn Grk “in the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God.”

¹² tn Or “based on truth.”

¹³ tn Grk “their throat is an opened grave.”

¹⁴ sn A quotation from Pss 5:9; 140:3.