Isaiah 13:18

13:18 Their arrows will cut young men to ribbons; ¹ 

they have no compassion on a person’s offspring, ² 

they will not ³  look with pity on children.

Ezekiel 9:5

9:5 While I listened, he said to the others, ⁴  “Go through the city after him and strike people down; do no let your eye pity nor spare ⁵  anyone!

Micah 7:2

7:2 Faithful men have disappeared ⁶  from the land;

there are no godly men left. ⁷ 

They all wait in ambush so they can shed blood; ⁸ 

they hunt their own brother with a net. ⁹ 

Micah 7:6

7:6 For a son thinks his father is a fool,

a daughter challenges ¹⁰  her mother,

and a daughter-in-law her mother-in-law;

a man’s enemies are his own servants. ¹¹ 

Micah 7:2

7:2 Faithful men have disappeared ¹²  from the land;

there are no godly men left. ¹³ 

They all wait in ambush so they can shed blood; ¹⁴ 

they hunt their own brother with a net. ¹⁵ 

Micah 2:4

2:4 In that day people will sing this taunt song to you –

they will mock you with this lament: ¹⁶ 

‘We are completely destroyed;

they sell off ¹⁷  the property of my people.

How they remove it from me! ¹⁸ 

They assign our fields to the conqueror.’ ¹⁹ 

[13:18]  ¹ tn Heb “and bows cut to bits young men.” “Bows” stands by metonymy for arrows.

[13:18]  ² tn Heb “the fruit of the womb.”

[13:18]  ³ tn Heb “their eye does not.” Here “eye” is a metonymy for the whole person.

[9:5]  ⁴ tn Heb “to these he said in my ears.”

[9:5]  ⁵ tn The meaning of the Hebrew term is primarily emotional: “to pity,” which in context implies an action, as in being moved by pity in order to spare them from the horror of their punishment.

[7:2]  ⁶ tn Or “have perished”; “have been destroyed.”

[7:2]  ⁷ tn Heb “and an upright one among men there is not.”

[7:2]  ⁸ tn Heb “for bloodshed” (so NASB); TEV “for a chance to commit murder.”

[7:2]  ⁹ sn Micah compares these ungodly people to hunters trying to capture their prey with a net.

[7:6]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “rises up against.”

[7:6]  ¹¹ tn Heb “the enemies of a man are the men of his house.”

[7:2]  ¹² tn Or “have perished”; “have been destroyed.”

[7:2]  ¹³ tn Heb “and an upright one among men there is not.”

[7:2]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “for bloodshed” (so NASB); TEV “for a chance to commit murder.”

[7:2]  ¹⁵ sn Micah compares these ungodly people to hunters trying to capture their prey with a net.

[2:4]  ¹⁶ tc The form נִהְיָה (nihyah) should be omitted as dittographic (note the preceding וְנָהָה נְהִי vÿnahah nÿhiy).

[2:4]  ¹⁷ tn Or “exchange.” The LXX suggests a reading יִמַּד (yimmad) from מָדַד (madad, “to measure”). In this case one could translate, “the property of my people is measured out [i.e., for resale].”

[2:4]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “how one removes for me.” Apparently the preposition has the nuance “from” here (cf. KJV, NASB, NIV, NRSV, NLT).

[2:4]  ¹⁹ tc The Hebrew term שׁוֹבֵב (shovev, “the one turning back”) elsewhere has the nuance “apostate” (cf. NASB) or “traitor” (cf. NIV). The translation assumes an emendation to שָׁבָה (shavah, “captor”).