Yehezkiel 29:3
Konteks29:3 Tell them, ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says:
“‘Look, I am against 1 you, Pharaoh king of Egypt,
the great monster 2 lying in the midst of its waterways,
who has said, “My Nile is my own, I made it for myself.” 3
Yehezkiel 35:11
Konteks35:11 therefore, as surely as I live, declares the sovereign Lord, I will deal with you according to your anger, and according to your envy, by which you acted spitefully against them. I will reveal myself to them when I judge you.
[29:3] 1 tn Or “I challenge you.” The phrase “I am against you” may be a formula for challenging someone to combat or a duel. See D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 1:201-2, and P. Humbert, “Die Herausforderungsformel ‘h!nn#n' ?l?K>,’” ZAW 45 (1933): 101-8.
[29:3] 2 tn Heb “jackals,” but many medieval Hebrew
[29:3] 3 sn In Egyptian theology Pharaoh owned and controlled the Nile. See J. D. Currid, Ancient Egypt and the Old Testament, 240-44.