Mazmur 10:6

10:6 He says to himself, ¹ 

“I will never ²  be upended,

because I experience no calamity.” ³ 

Yesaya 47:7-8

47:7 You said,

‘I will rule forever as permanent queen!’ ⁴ 

You did not think about these things; ⁵ 

you did not consider how it would turn out. ⁶ 

47:8 So now, listen to this,

O one who lives so lavishly, ⁷ 

who lives securely,

who says to herself, ⁸ 

‘I am unique! No one can compare to me! ⁹ 

I will never have to live as a widow;

I will never lose my children.’ ¹⁰ 

Zefanya 2:15

2:15 This is how the once-proud city will end up ¹¹  –

the city that was so secure. ¹² 

She thought to herself, ¹³  “I am unique! No one can compare to me!” ¹⁴ 

What a heap of ruins she has become, a place where wild animals live!

Everyone who passes by her taunts her ¹⁵  and shakes his fist. ¹⁶ 

[10:6]  ¹ tn Heb “he says in his heart/mind.”

[10:6]  ² tn Heb “for a generation and a generation.” The traditional accentuation of the MT understands these words with the following line.

[10:6]  ³ tn Heb “who, not in calamity.” If אֲשֶׁר (’asher) is taken as a relative pronoun here, then one could translate, “[I] who [am] not in calamity.” Some emend אֲשֶׁר to אֹשֶׁר (’osher, “happiness”; see HALOT 99 s.v. אֹשֶׁר); one might then translate, “[I live in] happiness, not in calamity.” The present translation assumes that אֲשֶׁר functions here as a causal conjunction, “because, for.” For this use of אֲשֶׁר, see BDB 83 s.v. אֲשֶׁר 8.c (where the present text is not cited).

[47:7]  ⁴ tn Heb “Forever I [will be] permanent queen”; NIV “the eternal queen”; CEV “queen forever.”

[47:7]  ⁵ tn Heb “you did not set these things upon your heart [or “mind”].”

[47:7]  ⁶ tn Heb “you did not remember its outcome”; NAB “you disregarded their outcome.”

[47:8]  ⁷ tn Or perhaps, “voluptuous one” (NAB); NAB “you sensual one”; NLT “You are a pleasure-crazy kingdom.”

[47:8]  ⁸ tn Heb “the one who says in her heart.”

[47:8]  ⁹ tn Heb “I [am], and besides me there is no other.” See Zeph 2:15.

[47:8]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “I will not live [as] a widow, and I will not know loss of children.”

[2:15]  ¹¹ tn Heb “this is the proud city.”

[2:15]  ¹² tn Heb “the one that lived securely.”

[2:15]  ¹³ tn Heb “the one who says in her heart.”

[2:15]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “I [am], and besides me there is no other.”

[2:15]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “hisses”; or “whistles.”

[2:15]  ¹⁶ sn Hissing (or whistling) and shaking the fist were apparently ways of taunting a defeated foe or an object of derision in the culture of the time.