Mazmur 44:20
Konteks44:20 If we had rejected our God, 1
and spread out our hands in prayer to another god, 2
Yesaya 13:22
Konteks13:22 Wild dogs will yip in her ruined fortresses,
jackals will yelp in the once-splendid palaces. 3
Her time is almost up, 4
her days will not be prolonged. 5
Yeremia 9:11
Konteks“I will make Jerusalem 7 a heap of ruins.
Jackals will make their home there. 8
I will destroy the towns of Judah
so that no one will be able to live in them.”
[44:20] 1 tn Heb “If we had forgotten the name of our God.” To “forget the name” here refers to rejecting the
[44:20] 2 tn Heb “and spread out your hands to another god.” Spreading out the hands was a prayer gesture (see Exod 9:29, 33; 1 Kgs 8:22, 38; 2 Chr 6:12-13, 29; Ezra 9:15; Job 11:13; Isa 1:15). In its most fundamental sense זר (“another; foreign; strange”) refers to something that is outside one’s circle, often making association with it inappropriate. A “strange” god is an alien deity, an “outside god” (see L. A. Snijders, TDOT 4:54-55).
[13:22] 3 tc The Hebrew text reads literally, “wild dogs will yip among his widows, and jackals in the palaces of pleasure.” The verb “yip” is supplied in the second line; it does double duty in the parallel structure. “His widows” makes little sense in this context; many emend the form (אַלְמנוֹתָיו, ’almnotayv) to the graphically similar אַרְמְנוֹתֶיהָ (’armÿnoteha, “her fortresses”), a reading that is assumed in the present translation. The use of “widows” may represent an intentional wordplay on “fortresses,” indicating that the fortresses are like dejected widows (J. N. Oswalt, Isaiah [NICOT], 1:308, n. 1).
[13:22] 4 tn Heb “near to come is her time.”
[13:22] 5 sn When was the prophecy of Babylon’s fall fulfilled? Some argue that the prophecy was fulfilled in 689
[9:11] 6 tn The words “the
[9:11] 7 map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.