106:15 He granted their request,
then struck them with a disease. 1
10:16 For this reason 2 the sovereign master, the Lord who commands armies, will make his healthy ones emaciated. 3 His majestic glory will go up in smoke. 4
24:16 From the ends of the earth we 5 hear songs –
the Just One is majestic. 6
But I 7 say, “I’m wasting away! I’m wasting away! I’m doomed!
Deceivers deceive, deceivers thoroughly deceive!” 8
1 tn Heb “and he sent leanness into their being.”
2 sn The irrational arrogance of the Assyrians (v. 15) will prompt the judgment about to be described.
3 tn Heb “will send leanness against his healthy ones”; NASB, NIV “will send a wasting disease.”
4 tc Heb “and in the place of his glory burning will burn, like the burning of fire.” The highly repetitive text (יֵקַד יְקֹד כִּיקוֹד אֵשׁ, yeqad yiqod kiqod ’esh) may be dittographic; if the second consonantal sequence יקד is omitted, the text would read “and in the place of his glory, it will burn like the burning of fire.”
5 sn The identity of the subject is unclear. Apparently in vv. 15-16a an unidentified group responds to the praise they hear in the west by exhorting others to participate.
6 tn Heb “Beauty belongs to the just one.” These words may summarize the main theme of the songs mentioned in the preceding line.
7 sn The prophet seems to contradict what he hears the group saying. Their words are premature because more destruction is coming.
8 tn Heb “and [with] deception deceivers deceive.”