Imamat 26:25

26:25 I will bring on you an avenging sword, a covenant vengeance. ¹  Although ²  you will gather together into your cities, I will send pestilence among you and you will be given into enemy hands. ³ 

Mazmur 78:50

78:50 He sent his anger in full force; ⁴ 

he did not spare them from death;

he handed their lives over to destruction. ⁵ 

Amos 4:10

4:10 “I sent against you a plague like one of the Egyptian plagues. ⁶ 

I killed your young men with the sword,

along with the horses you had captured.

I made the stench from the corpses ⁷  rise up into your nostrils.

Still you did not come back to me.”

The Lord is speaking!

[26:25]  ¹ tn Heb “vengeance of covenant”; cf. NAB “the avenger of my covenant.”

[26:25]  ² tn Heb “and.” The Hebrew conjunction ו (vav, “and”) has a concessive force in this context.

[26:25]  ³ tn Heb “in hand of enemy,” but Tg. Ps.-J. and Tg. Neof. have “in the hands of your enemies” (J. E. Hartley, Leviticus [WBC], 454).

[78:50]  ⁴ tn Heb “he leveled a path for his anger.” There were no obstacles to impede its progress; it moved swiftly and destructively.

[78:50]  ⁵ tn Or perhaps “[the] plague.”

[4:10]  ⁶ tn Heb “in the manner [or “way”] of Egypt.”

[4:10]  ⁷ tn Heb “of your camps [or “armies”].”