Deuteronomy 32:27

32:27 But I fear the reaction ¹  of their enemies,

for ²  their adversaries would misunderstand

and say, “Our power is great, ³ 

and the Lord has not done all this!”’

Joshua 7:8-9

7:8 If only we had been satisfied to live on the other side of the Jordan! O Lord, what can I say now that Israel has retreated ⁴  before its enemies? 7:9 When the Canaanites and all who live in the land hear about this, they will turn against us and destroy the very memory of us ⁵  from the earth. What will you do to protect your great reputation?” ⁶ 

Joshua 7:1

Achan Sins and is Punished

7:1 But the Israelites disobeyed the command about the city’s riches. ⁷  Achan son of Carmi, son of Zabdi, ⁸  son of Zerah, from the tribe of Judah, stole some of the riches. ⁹  The Lord was furious with the Israelites. ¹⁰ 

Joshua 2:9

2:9 She said to the men, “I know the Lord is handing this land over to you. ¹¹  We are absolutely terrified of you, ¹²  and all who live in the land are cringing before ¹³  you. ¹⁴ 

Psalms 9:19

9:19 Rise up, Lord! ¹⁵ 

Don’t let men be defiant! ¹⁶ 

May the nations be judged in your presence!

Psalms 79:9-10

79:9 Help us, O God, our deliverer!

For the sake of your glorious reputation, ¹⁷  rescue us!

Forgive our sins for the sake of your reputation! ¹⁸ 

79:10 Why should the nations say, “Where is their God?”

Before our very eyes may the shed blood of your servants

be avenged among the nations! ¹⁹ 

Isaiah 2:22

2:22 Stop trusting in human beings,

whose life’s breath is in their nostrils.

For why should they be given special consideration?

Jeremiah 1:19

1:19 They will attack you but they will not be able to overcome you, for I will be with you to rescue you,” says the Lord.

Zechariah 2:8

2:8 For the Lord who rules over all says to me that for his own glory ²⁰  he has sent me to the nations that plundered you – for anyone who touches you touches the pupil ²¹  of his ²²  eye.

Matthew 16:18

16:18 And I tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of Hades ²³  will not overpower it.

Acts 9:4

9:4 He ²⁴  fell to the ground and heard a voice saying to him, “Saul, Saul, ²⁵  why are you persecuting me?” ²⁶ 

[32:27]  ¹ tn Heb “anger.”

[32:27]  ² tn Heb “lest.”

[32:27]  ³ tn Heb “Our hand is high.” Cf. NAB “Our own hand won the victory.”

[7:8]  ⁴ tn Heb “turned [the] back.”

[7:9]  ⁵ tn Heb “and cut off our name.”

[7:9]  ⁶ tn Heb “What will you do for your great name?”

[7:1]  ⁷ tn Heb “But the sons of Israel were unfaithful with unfaithfulness concerning what was set apart [to the Lord].”

[7:1]  ⁸ tn 1 Chr 2:6 lists a “Zimri” (but no Zabdi) as one of the five sons of Zerah (cf. also 1 Chr 7:17, 18).

[7:1]  ⁹ tn Heb “took from what was set apart [to the Lord].”

[7:1]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “the anger of the Lord burned against the sons of Israel.”

[2:9]  ¹¹ tn Heb “has given the land to you.” Rahab’s statement uses the Hebrew perfect, suggesting certitude.

[2:9]  ¹² tn Heb “terror of you has fallen upon us.”

[2:9]  ¹³ tn Or “melting away because of.”

[2:9]  ¹⁴ tn Both of these statements are actually subordinated to “I know” in the Hebrew text, which reads, “I know that the Lord…and that terror of you…and that all the inhabitants….”

[9:19]  ¹⁵ sn Rise up, Lord! …May the nations be judged. The psalm concludes with a petition that the Lord would continue to exercise his justice as he has done in the recent crisis.

[9:19]  ¹⁶ tn Or “prevail.”

[79:9]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “the glory of your name.” Here and in the following line “name” stands metonymically for God’s reputation.

[79:9]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “your name.”

[79:10]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “may it be known among the nations, to our eyes, the vengeance of the shed blood of your servants.”

[2:8]  ²⁰ tn Heb “After glory has he sent me” (similar KJV, NASB). What is clearly in view is the role of Zechariah who, by faithful proclamation of the message, will glorify the Lord.

[2:8]  ²¹ tn Heb “gate” (בָּבָה, bavah) of the eye, that is, pupil. The rendering of this term by KJV as “apple” has created a well-known idiom in the English language, “the apple of his eye” (so ASV, NIV). The pupil is one of the most vulnerable and valuable parts of the body, so for Judah to be considered the “pupil” of the Lord’s eye is to raise her value to an incalculable price (cf. NLT “my most precious possession”).

[2:8]  ²² tc A scribal emendation (tiqqun sopherim) has apparently altered an original “my eye” to “his eye” in order to allow the prophet to be the speaker throughout vv. 8-9. This alleviates the problem of the Lord saying, in effect, that he has sent himself on the mission to the nations.

[16:18]  ²³ tn Or “and the power of death” (taking the reference to the gates of Hades as a metonymy).

[9:4]  ²⁴ tn Grk “and he.” Because of the length of the Greek sentence, the conjunction καί (kai) has not been translated here. Instead a new English sentence is begun.

[9:4]  ²⁵ tn The double vocative suggests emotion.

[9:4]  ²⁶ sn Persecuting me. To persecute the church is to persecute Jesus.