1tn Heb “set your face against.” 2sn Mount Seir is to be identified with Edom (Ezek 35:15), home of Esau’s descendants (Gen 25:21-30). 3tn Or “gave over…to the power of the sword.” This phrase also occurs in Jer 18:21 and Ps 63:10. 4tc The translation reads with some manuscripts לְשִׁמְמָה וּמְשַׁמָּה (l˙shimmah um˙shammah, “desolate ruin”) as in verse 3 and often in Ezekiel. The majority reading reverses the first mem (מ) with the shin (שׁ) resulting in the repetition of the word desolate: לְשִׁמְמָה וּשְׁמָמָה (l˙shimmah ush˙mamah). 5tn Or “kill.” 6sn The reference is to Israel and Judah. 7tn Heb “it.” 8tn Heb “your mouth.” 9tn Heb “and you multiplied against me your words.” The Hebrew verb occurs only here and in Prov 27:6, where it refers to the “excessive” kisses of an enemy. The basic idea of the verb appears to be “to be abundant.” Here it occurs in the causative (Hiphil) stem.
1tn Heb “set your face against.”
2sn Mount Seir is to be identified with Edom (Ezek 35:15), home of Esau’s descendants (Gen 25:21-30).
3tn Or “gave over…to the power of the sword.” This phrase also occurs in Jer 18:21 and Ps 63:10.
4tc The translation reads with some manuscripts לְשִׁמְמָה וּמְשַׁמָּה (l˙shimmah um˙shammah, “desolate ruin”) as in verse 3 and often in Ezekiel. The majority reading reverses the first mem (מ) with the shin (שׁ) resulting in the repetition of the word desolate: לְשִׁמְמָה וּשְׁמָמָה (l˙shimmah ush˙mamah).
5tn Or “kill.”
6sn The reference is to Israel and Judah.
7tn Heb “it.”
8tn Heb “your mouth.”
9tn Heb “and you multiplied against me your words.” The Hebrew verb occurs only here and in Prov 27:6, where it refers to the “excessive” kisses of an enemy. The basic idea of the verb appears to be “to be abundant.” Here it occurs in the causative (Hiphil) stem.