translation_id: net-engnet

book_id: EZK

label: NET translator note

text: Heb “set your face toward.”


text: Heb “the sons of Ammon.” Ammon was located to the east of Israel.


text: The word הִנֵּה ( hinneh , traditionally “behold”) indicates being aware of or taking notice of something and has been translated here with a verb (so also throughout the chapter).


text: Heb “Look I am about to give you for a possession to.”


text: Heb “sons.”


text: Heb “the sons of Ammon.”


text: Heb “with all your scorn in (the) soul.”


label: NET textual note

text: The translation here follows the marginal reading ( Qere ) of the Hebrew text. The consonantal text ( Kethib ) is meaningless.


text: Heb “shoulder.”


text: Heb “from the cities.” The verb “eliminating” has been added in the translation to reflect the privative use of the preposition (see BDB 583 s.v. מִן 7.b).


text: Heb “from its cities, from its end.”


text: Heb “I will give it for a possession.”


text: Heb “the sons of Ammon” (twice in this verse).


text: Heb “the sons.”


text: Heb “and they have become guilty, becoming guilty.” The infinitive absolute following the finite verb makes the statement emphatic and draws attention to the degree of guilt incurred by Edom due to its actions.


text: Heb “and they have taken vengeance.”


text: Heb “and I will cut off from her man and beast.”


text: Heb “fall.”


text: Heb “know.”


text: Heb “have acted with vengeance and taken vengeance with vengeance.” The repetition emphasizes the degree of vengeance which they exhibited, presumably toward Judah.


text: Heb “with scorn in (the) soul.”


text: The object is not specified in the Hebrew text, but has been clarified as “Judah” in the translation.


text: Heb “to destroy (with) perpetual hostility.” Joel 3:4-8 also speaks of the Philistines taking advantage of the fall of Judah.


text: In Hebrew the verb “and I will cut off” sounds like its object, “the Cherethites,” and draws attention to the statement.


text: Heb “with acts of punishment of anger.”