Nehemiah 13:22

13:22 Then I directed the Levites to purify themselves and come and guard the gates in order to keep the Sabbath day holy.

For this please remember me, O my God, and have pity on me in keeping with your great love.

Psalms 103:8-13

103:8 The Lord is compassionate and merciful;

he is patient ¹  and demonstrates great loyal love. ² 

103:9 He does not always accuse,

and does not stay angry. ³ 

103:10 He does not deal with us as our sins deserve; ⁴ 

he does not repay us as our misdeeds deserve. ⁵ 

103:11 For as the skies are high above the earth,

so his loyal love towers ⁶  over his faithful followers. ⁷ 

103:12 As far as the eastern horizon ⁸  is from the west, ⁹ 

so he removes the guilt of our rebellious actions ¹⁰  from us.

103:13 As a father has compassion on his children, ¹¹ 

so the Lord has compassion on his faithful followers. ¹² 

Isaiah 26:20-21

26:20 Go, my people! Enter your inner rooms!

Close your doors behind you!

Hide for a little while,

until his angry judgment is over! ¹³ 

26:21 For look, the Lord is coming out of the place where he lives, ¹⁴ 

to punish the sin of those who live on the earth.

The earth will display the blood shed on it;

it will no longer cover up its slain. ¹⁵ 

Jeremiah 31:20

31:20 Indeed, the people of Israel are my dear children.

They are the children I take delight in. ¹⁶ 

For even though I must often rebuke them,

I still remember them with fondness.

So I am deeply moved with pity for them ¹⁷ 

and will surely have compassion on them.

I, the Lord, affirm it! ¹⁸ 

Zephaniah 2:2

2:2 before God’s decree becomes reality ¹⁹  and the day of opportunity disappears like windblown chaff, ²⁰ 

before the Lord’s raging anger ²¹  overtakes ²²  you –

before the day of the Lord’s angry judgment overtakes you!

Matthew 25:34

25:34 Then the king will say to those on his right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.

Romans 8:32

8:32 Indeed, he who ²³  did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all – how will he not also, along with him, freely give us all things?

Romans 8:2

8:2 For the law of the life-giving Spirit ²⁴  in Christ Jesus has set you ²⁵  free from the law of sin and death.

Colossians 1:18

1:18 He is the head of the body, the church, as well as the beginning, the firstborn ²⁶  from among the dead, so that he himself may become first in all things. ²⁷ 

Colossians 1:1

Salutation

1:1 From Paul, ²⁸  an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother,

Colossians 3:1-3

Exhortations to Seek the Things Above

3:1 Therefore, if you have been raised with Christ, keep seeking the things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. 3:2 Keep thinking about things above, not things on the earth, 3:3 for you have died and your life is hidden with Christ in God.

[103:8]  ¹ tn Heb “slow to anger” (see Ps 86:15).

[103:8]  ² tn Heb “and great of loyal love” (see Ps 86:15).

[103:9]  ³ tn The Hebrew verb נָטַר (natar) is usually taken to mean “to keep; to guard,” with “anger” being understood by ellipsis. The idiom “to guard anger” is then understood to mean “to remain angry” (see Lev 19:18; Jer 3:5, 12; Nah 1:2). However, it is possible that this is a homonymic root meaning “to be angry” (see HALOT 695 s.v. נטר).

[103:10]  ⁴ tn Heb “not according to our sins does he do to us.”

[103:10]  ⁵ tn Heb “and not according to our misdeeds does he repay us.”

[103:11]  ⁶ tn For this sense of the verb גָבַר (gavar), see L. C. Allen, Psalms 101-150 (WBC), 17, 19.

[103:11]  ⁷ tn Heb “those who fear him.”

[103:12]  ⁸ tn Heb “sunrise.”

[103:12]  ⁹ tn Or “sunset.”

[103:12]  ¹⁰ tn The Hebrew term פֶּשַׁע (pesha’, rebellious act”) is here used metonymically for the guilt such actions produce.

[103:13]  ¹¹ tn Or “sons,” but the Hebrew term sometimes refers to children in general.

[103:13]  ¹² tn Heb “those who fear him.”

[26:20]  ¹³ tn Heb “until anger passes by.”

[26:21]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “out of his place” (so KJV, ASV).

[26:21]  ¹⁵ sn This implies that rampant bloodshed is one of the reasons for divine judgment. See the note at 24:5.

[31:20]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “Is Ephraim a dear son to me or a child of delight?” For the substitution of Israel for Ephraim and the plural pronouns for the singular see the note on v. 18. According to BDB 210 s.v. הֲ 1.c the question is rhetorical having the force of an impassioned affirmation. See 1 Sam 2:27; Job 41:9 (41:1 HT) for parallel usage.

[31:20]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “my stomach churns for him.” The parallelism shows that this refers to pity or compassion.

[31:20]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “Oracle of the Lord.”

[2:2]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “before the giving birth of a decree.” For various alternative readings, see J. J. M. Roberts, Nahum, Habakkuk, and Zephaniah (OTL), 187-88.

[2:2]  ²⁰ tn The second half of the line reads literally, “like chaff it passes by a day.” The translation above assumes the “day” is the brief time God is giving the nation to repent. The comparison of this quickly passing opportunity to chaff is consistent with the straw imagery of v. 1.

[2:2]  ²¹ tn Heb “the fury of the anger of the Lord.” The synonyms are combined to emphasize the extreme degree of the Lord’s anger.

[2:2]  ²² tn Heb “comes upon.” This phrase occurs twice in this verse.

[8:32]  ²³ tn Grk “[he] who.” The relative clause continues the question of v. 31 in a way that is awkward in English. The force of v. 32 is thus: “who indeed did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all – How will he not also with him give us all things?”

[8:2]  ²⁴ tn Grk “for the law of the Spirit of life.”

[8:2]  ²⁵ tc Most mss read the first person singular pronoun με (me) here (A D 1739^c 1881 Ï lat sa). The second person singular pronoun σε (se) is superior because of external support (א B {F which reads σαι} G 1506* 1739*) and internal support (it is the harder reading since ch. 7 was narrated in the first person). At the same time, it could have arisen via dittography from the final syllable of the verb preceding it (ἠλευθέρωσεν, hleuqerwsen; “has set free”). But for this to happen in such early and diverse witnesses is unlikely, especially as it depends on various scribes repeatedly overlooking either the nu or the nu-bar at the end of the verb.

[1:18]  ²⁶ tn See the note on the term “firstborn” in 1:15. Here the reference to Jesus as the “firstborn from among the dead” seems to be arguing for a chronological priority, i.e., Jesus was the first to rise from the dead.

[1:18]  ²⁷ tn Grk “in order that he may become in all things, himself, first.”

[1:1]  ²⁸ tn Grk “Paul.” The word “from” is not in the Greek text, but has been supplied to indicate the sender of the letter.