69:23 May their eyes be blinded! 1
Make them shake violently! 2
69:24 Pour out your judgment 3 on them!
May your raging anger 4 overtake them!
1 tn Heb “may their eyes be darkened from seeing.”
2 tn Heb “make their hips shake continually.”
3 tn Heb “anger.” “Anger” here refers metonymically to divine judgment, which is the practical effect of God’s anger.
4 tn Heb “the rage of your anger.” The phrase “rage of your anger” employs an appositional genitive. Synonyms are joined in a construct relationship to emphasize the single idea. For a detailed discussion of the grammatical point with numerous examples, see Y. Avishur, “Pairs of Synonymous Words in the Construct State (and in Appositional Hendiadys) in Biblical Hebrew,” Semitics 2 (1971), 17-81.