Isaiah 26:11

26:11 O Lord, you are ready to act, ¹ 

but they don’t even notice.

They will see and be put to shame by your angry judgment against humankind, ² 

yes, fire will consume your enemies. ³ 

Isaiah 26:1

Judah Will Celebrate

26:1 At that time ⁴  this song will be sung in the land of Judah:

“We have a strong city!

The Lord’s ⁵  deliverance, like walls and a rampart, makes it secure. ⁶ 

Isaiah 22:25

22:25 “At that time,” ⁷  says the Lord who commands armies, “the peg fastened into a solid place will come loose. It will be cut off and fall, and the load hanging on it will be cut off.” ⁸  Indeed, ⁹  the Lord has spoken.

Job 21:19-20

21:19 You may say, ¹⁰  ‘God stores up a man’s ¹¹  punishment for his children!’ ¹² 

Instead let him repay ¹³  the man himself ¹⁴ 

so that ¹⁵  he may know it!

21:20 Let his own eyes see his destruction; ¹⁶ 

let him drink of the anger of the Almighty.

Jeremiah 32:24

32:24 Even now siege ramps have been built up around the city ¹⁷  in order to capture it. War, ¹⁸  starvation, and disease are sure to make the city fall into the hands of the Babylonians ¹⁹  who are attacking it. ²⁰  Lord, ²¹  you threatened that this would happen. Now you can see that it is already taking place. ²² 

Jeremiah 44:28-29

44:28 Some who survive in battle will return to the land of Judah from the land of Egypt. But they will be very few indeed! ²³  Then the Judean remnant who have come to live in the land of Egypt will know whose word proves true, ²⁴  mine or theirs.’ 44:29 Moreover the Lord says, ²⁵  ‘I will make something happen to prove that I will punish you in this place. I will do it so that you will know that my threats to bring disaster on you will prove true. ²⁶ 

Ezekiel 7:9

7:9 My eye will not pity you; I will not spare ²⁷  you. For your behavior I will hold you accountable, ²⁸  and you will suffer the consequences of your abominable practices. Then you will know that it is I, the Lord, who is striking you. ²⁹ 

Ezekiel 7:27

7:27 The king will mourn and the prince will be clothed with shuddering; the hands of the people of the land will tremble. Based on their behavior I will deal with them, and by their standard of justice ³⁰  I will judge them. Then they will know that I am the Lord!”

Ezekiel 30:19

30:19 I will execute judgments on Egypt.

Then they will know that I am the Lord.’”

Ezekiel 33:33

33:33 When all this comes true – and it certainly will ³¹  – then they will know that a prophet was among them.”

[26:11]  ¹ tn Heb “O Lord, your hand is lifted up.”

[26:11]  ² tn Heb “They will see and be ashamed of zeal of people.” Some take the prefixed verbs as jussives and translate the statement as a prayer, “Let them see and be put to shame.” The meaning of the phrase קִנְאַת־עָם (qin’at-’am, “zeal of people”) is unclear. The translation assumes that this refers to God’s angry judgment upon people. Another option is to understand the phrase as referring to God’s zealous, protective love of his covenant people. In this case one might translate, “by your zealous devotion to your people.”

[26:11]  ³ tn Heb “yes, fire, your enemies, will consume them.” Many understand the prefixed verb form to be jussive and translate, “let [fire] consume” (cf. NAB, NIV, NRSV). The mem suffixed to the verb may be enclitic; if a pronominal suffix, it refers back to “your enemies.”

[26:1]  ⁴ tn Heb “In that day” (so KJV).

[26:1]  ⁵ tn Heb “his”; the referent (the Lord) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[26:1]  ⁶ tn Heb “deliverance he makes walls and a rampart.”

[22:25]  ⁷ tn Or “In that day” (KJV).

[22:25]  ⁸ sn Eliakim’s authority, though seemingly secure, will eventually be removed, and with it his family’s prominence.

[22:25]  ⁹ tn Or “for” (KJV, NAB, NASB, NRSV).

[21:19]  ¹⁰ tn These words are supplied. The verse records an idea that Job suspected they might have, namely, that if the wicked die well God will make their children pay for the sins (see Job 5:4; 20:10; as well as Exod 20:5).

[21:19]  ¹¹ tn The text simply has אוֹנוֹ (’ono, “his iniquity”), but by usage, “the punishment for the iniquity.”

[21:19]  ¹² tn Heb “his sons.”

[21:19]  ¹³ tn The verb שָׁלַם (shalam) in the Piel has the meaning of restoring things to their normal, making whole, and so reward, repay (if for sins), or recompense in general.

[21:19]  ¹⁴ tn The text simply has “let him repay [to] him.”

[21:19]  ¹⁵ tn The imperfect verb after the jussive carries the meaning of a purpose clause, and so taken as a final imperfect: “in order that he may know [or realize].”

[21:20]  ¹⁶ tc This word occurs only here. The word כִּיד (kid) was connected to Arabic kaid, “fraud, trickery,” or “warfare.” The word is emended by the commentators to other ideas, such as פִּיד (pid, “[his] calamity”). Dahood and others alter it to “cup”; Wright to “weapons.” A. F. L. Beeston argues for a meaning “condemnation” for the MT form, and so makes no change in the text (Mus 67 [1954]: 315-16). If the connection to Arabic “warfare” is sustained, or if such explanations of the existing MT can be sustained, then the text need not be emended. In any case, the sense of the line is clear.

[32:24]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “Siege ramps have come up to the city to capture it.”

[32:24]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “sword.”

[32:24]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “The Chaldeans.” See the study note on 21:4 for further explanation.

[32:24]  ²⁰ tn Heb “And the city has been given into the hands of the Chaldeans who are fighting against it because of the sword, starvation, and disease.” The verb “has been given” is one of those perfects that view the action as good as done (the perfect of certainty or prophetic perfect).

[32:24]  ²¹ tn The word “Lord” is not in the text but is supplied in the translation as a reminder that it is he who is being addressed.

[32:24]  ²² tn Heb “And what you said has happened and behold you see it.”

[44:28]  ²³ tn Heb “The survivors of the sword will return from the land of Egypt to the land of Judah few in number [more literally, “men of number”; for the idiom see BDB 709 s.v. מִסְפָּר 1.a].” The term “survivors of the sword” may be intended to represent both those who survive death in war or death by starvation or disease, a synecdoche of species for all three genera.

[44:28]  ²⁴ tn Heb “will stand,” i.e., in the sense of being fulfilled, proving to be true, or succeeding (see BDB 878 s.v. קוּם 7.g).

[44:29]  ²⁵ tn Heb “oracle of the Lord.”

[44:29]  ²⁶ tn Heb “This will be to you the sign, oracle of the Lord, that I will punish you in this place in order that you may know that my threats against you for evil/disaster/harm will certainly stand [see the translator’s note on the preceding verse for the meaning of this word here].” The word “sign” refers to an event that is a pre-omen or portent of something that will happen later (see BDB 16 s.v. אוֹת 2 and compare usage in 1 Sam 14:10; 2 Kgs 19:29). The best way to carry that idea across in this context seems to be “I will make something happen to prove [or portend].” Another possibility would be “I will give you a pre-omen that,” but many readers would probably not be familiar with “omen/pre-omen.” Again the sentence has been broken in two and restructured to better conform with English style.

[7:9]  ²⁷ 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.

[7:9]  ²⁸ tn Heb “According to your behavior I will place on you.”

[7:9]  ²⁹ tn The MT lacks “you.” It has been added for clarification.

[7:27]  ³⁰ tn Heb “and by their judgments.”

[33:33]  ³¹ tn Heb “behold it is coming.”