Isaiah 52:5

52:5 And now, what do we have here?” ¹  says the Lord.

“Indeed my people have been carried away for nothing,

those who rule over them taunt,” ²  says the Lord,

“and my name is constantly slandered ³  all day long.

Lamentations 2:15-16

ס (Samek)

2:15 All who passed by on the road

clapped their hands to mock you. ⁴ 

They sneered and shook their heads

at Daughter Jerusalem.

“Ha! Is this the city they called ⁵ 

‘The perfection of beauty, ⁶ 

the source of joy of the whole earth!’?” ⁷ 

פ (Pe)

2:16 All your enemies

gloated over you. ⁸ 

They sneered and gnashed their teeth;

they said, “We have destroyed ⁹  her!

Ha! We have waited a long time for this day.

We have lived to see it!” ¹⁰ 

Ezekiel 36:20-23

36:20 But when they arrived in the nations where they went, they profaned my holy name. It was said of them, ‘These are the people of the Lord, yet they have departed from his land.’ 36:21 I was concerned for my holy reputation ¹¹  which the house of Israel profaned among the nations where they went.

36:22 “Therefore say to the house of Israel, ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: It is not for your sake that I am about to act, O house of Israel, but for the sake of my holy reputation ¹²  which you profaned among the nations where you went. 36:23 I will magnify ¹³  my great name that has been profaned among the nations, that you have profaned among them. The nations will know that I am the Lord, declares the sovereign Lord, when I magnify myself among you in their sight.

Matthew 18:7

18:7 Woe to the world because of stumbling blocks! It ¹⁴  is necessary that stumbling blocks come, but woe to the person through whom they come.

Matthew 18:1

Questions About the Greatest

18:1 At that time the disciples came to Jesus saying, “Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?”

Matthew 5:14

5:14 You are the light of the world. A city located on a hill cannot be hidden.

Matthew 6:1

Pure-hearted Giving

6:1 “Be ¹⁵  careful not to display your righteousness merely to be seen by people. ¹⁶  Otherwise you have no reward with your Father in heaven.

Titus 2:5

2:5 to be self-controlled, ¹⁷  pure, fulfilling their duties at home, ¹⁸  kind, being subject to their own husbands, so that the message ¹⁹  of God may not be discredited. ²⁰ 

Titus 2:8

2:8 and a sound message that cannot be criticized, so that any opponent will be at a loss, ²¹  because he has nothing evil to say about us.

[52:5]  ¹ tn Heb “and now what [following the marginal reading (Qere)] to me here?”

[52:5]  ² tn The verb appears to be a Hiphil form from the root יָלַל (yalal, “howl”), perhaps here in the sense of “mock.” Some emend the form to יְהוֹלָּלוֹ (yÿhollalo) and understand a Polel form of the root הָלַל meaning here “mock, taunt.”

[52:5]  ³ tn The verb is apparently a Hitpolal form (with assimilated tav, ת) from the root נָאַץ (na’ats), but GKC 151-52 §55.b explains it as a mixed form, combining Pual and Hitpolel readings.

[2:15]  ⁴ tn Heb “clap their hands at you.” Clapping hands at someone was an expression of malicious glee, derision and mockery (Num 24:10; Job 27:23; Lam 2:15).

[2:15]  ⁵ tn Heb “of which they said.”

[2:15]  ⁶ tn Heb “perfection of beauty.” The noun יֹפִי (yofi, “beauty”) functions as a genitive of respect in relation to the preceding construct noun: Jerusalem was perfect in respect to its physical beauty.

[2:15]  ⁷ tn Heb “the joy of all the earth.” This is similar to statements found in Pss 48:2 and 50:2.

[2:16]  ⁸ tn Heb “they have opened wide their mouth against you.”

[2:16]  ⁹ tn Heb “We have swallowed!”

[2:16]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “We have attained, we have seen!” The verbs מָצָאנוּ רָאִינוּ (matsa’nu ra’inu) form a verbal hendiadys in which the first retains its full verbal sense and the second functions as an object complement. It forms a Hebrew idiom that means something like, “We have lived to see it!” The three asyndetic 1st person common plural statements in 2:16 (“We waited, we destroyed, we saw!”) are spoken in an impassioned, staccato style reflecting the delight of the conquerors.

[36:21]  ¹¹ tn Heb “name.”

[36:22]  ¹² sn In Ezek 20:22 God refrained from punishment for the sake of his holy name. Here God’s reputation is the basis for Israel’s restoration.

[36:23]  ¹³ tn Or “sanctify,” Heb “make holy.”

[18:7]  ¹⁴ tn Grk “For it.” Here γάρ (gar) has not been translated.

[6:1]  ¹⁵ tc ‡ Several mss (א L Z Θ Ë¹ 33 892 1241 1424 al) have δέ (de, “but, now”) at the beginning of this verse; the reading without δέ is supported by B D W 0250 ˹³ Ï lat. A decision is difficult, but apparently the conjunction was added by later scribes to indicate a transition in the thought-flow of the Sermon on the Mount. NA²⁷ has δέ in brackets, indicating reservations about its authenticity.

[6:1]  ¹⁶ tn Grk “before people in order to be seen by them.”

[2:5]  ¹⁷ tn Or “sensible.”

[2:5]  ¹⁸ tn Grk “domestic,” “keeping house.”

[2:5]  ¹⁹ tn Or “word.”

[2:5]  ²⁰ tn Or “slandered.”

[2:8]  ²¹ tn Or “put to shame.”