that into which it is made, as (Gen. xxi. 18) “I will make him into a great nation." LXX. For vay hí kai čσral, reading, and consequently the other verbs also are put incorrectly in the future. CHAPTER VIII. GAIN the word of the LORD of hosts came to me, say AG ing, 2 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; I was jealous for Zion with great jealousy, and I was jealous for her with great fury. Verses 2, 3. 3 Thus saith the LORD; I am returned unto Zion, and will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem: and Jerusalem shall be called a city of truth; and the mountain of the LORD of hosts the holy mountain. 4 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; On qinnéthi with↳ comp. i. 14.—On the accusatives qin'áh g'dōláh and chēmáh g'dōláh see note on i. 2.-Shábhti...v'shàcantí Constructions "I am returned...and will dwell," comp. ii. 14-16 (E. V. 10-12).—méth "truth" and qódesh "holiness" being abstracts have, as is often the case, the def. art. prefixed. Thus y and LXX. ”.Mountain of Holiness » הר הקדש ",means « City of Truth האמת There is no word in Bibl. Hebr. for "true" (though there is JANI “faithful," cf. DN 7 Is. i. 26), so that if the prophet had wished to say "the true city" he could only have used the expression which he has here. But, on the other hand, there is an adj. "holy," so that had he meant to say "the true city, the holy mountain," he might have written instead of hár haqqódesh p7777.—LXX. Tódis ἀληθινὴ...ὄρος ἅγιον. Verses 4, 5. TT "there shall yet dwell." In ver. 20 we have a slight variation of construction means "it (shall yet be) "each" (see note on Constructions. that there shall come."—" vii. 10), and the introduces the clause descriptive of additional circumstances, comp. v. 9, vi. 1.— is a fem. noun (Dan. ix. 25), but : with the plur. the masc. verb is here used (hardly because the fem. is here used as a neut., Böttcher, C. H. H. Wright, but) because the Imperf. 3rd and 2nd fem. plur. is but sparingly used in Hebrew, comp. ולא־ and on the other hand עיני כל אליך ישברו (15 .Ps. xlv) There shall yet old men and old 6 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; If it be marvellous in the eyes of the remnant of this people in these days, should it also be marvellous in mine eyes? saith the LORD of hosts. 7 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Behold, I will save my people from the east country, and from the west country; 8 And I will bring them, and they shall dwell in the midst of Jerusalem: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God, in truth and in righteousness. 9 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Ty (2 Kings xxii. 20, &c. and comp. Zech. viii. 9).-On the vocalization of mish'anté see note on xi. 3.-The predicate p is masc., as is commonly the case when a masc. and fem. noun precede, אברהם ושרה זקנים (11 .as (Gen. xviii כי תמצאי "if thou Verse 6. Constructions and LXX. * denotes "if" as in (2 Kings iv. 29) meet any one." But the expression bayyāmím hāhếm “in those days" (viz. when the House was first founded), not "in these days" (E. V.), shows that we cannot render the first yippāle "it be (or shall be) too marvellous" (LXX. ei áduvarýσel must, therefore, mean "if it was ...ἐν ἡμέραις ἐκείναις). ...¿v Taîs yμépais ¿keivais). too marvellous (see note on i. 5)." stands for comp. (1 Sam. xxii. 7), - “will he give to all of you?" (see also p. 35). Thus may be rendered "was it, therefore, too marvellous," or since the work was not then completed, it may mean "is it, therefore (or will it, therefore, be) too marvellous, &c." LXX. μn kaì évútióv μὴ ἐνώπιόν μου ἀδυνατήσει ; y is the Prophetic Participle followed by the Perfect with vāv convers. vhebhethí, comp. p. 36. (Baer has accidentally omitted the Fixed Metheg with '.)—For v'shàc°nú LXX. Verses 7, 8. Words, Constructions and LXX. deliberately in order to retain the same subject of the sentence. Observe that "in these days," and "in those days," (ver. 10) are contrasted. "The prophets," viz. Haggai and Zechariah, and Verse 9. is the Constructions ביום אשר היו perhaps others. -*sher stands for constr. before the finite verb yussád “was founded,” comp. 727 0 (Ex. vi. 2), and the similar Arab. construction waqta Let your hands be strong, ye that hear in these days these words by the mouth of the prophets, which were in the day that the foundation of the house of the LORD of hosts was laid, that the temple might be built. 10 For before these days there was no hire for man, nor any hire for beast; neither was there any peace to him that went out or came in because of the affliction: for I set all men every one against his neighbour. 'statara (Hebraice ny) "what time he hid himself." (The case הדבר Hos. i. 2 is doubtful, for there is a substantive תחלת דבר-י"י of Jer. v. 13, comp. R. D. Qimchi's Introd. Poem to his Comm. on Pss.).— Hàhechal is in apposition with Béth YHVH: there is no need, with Hitzig, to regard it as a gloss.-"for the purpose of being built," i.e. when its foundations were laid for this purpose. LXX. give what they conceived to be the sense of the passage, and render freely ap' ǹs ἡμέρας τεθεμελίωται... καὶ ὁ ναὸς ἀφ ̓ οὗ ᾠκοδόμηται. There is no need to suppose that they read (see p. 3, last line). Sācár "hire" is masc., and with it nìh'yáh agrees; but Verse 10. Words and Constructions. is attracted into the gender of 7 (see note on vi. 6).— Nih yah is the 3rd sing, Perf. masc. of (on the màaríc see Excurs. II. A. 7). The Niph. of this verb occurs only in the Perf. and Partic. It generally means "happened" (Judg. xix. 30), "was caused" (1 Kings xii. 24), "was undone," i. e. "went off" (of sleep, Dan. ii. 1), or (into a swoon, Dan. viii. 27). In Joel ii. 2 66 means was not," and so here. Observe that the tense of לא נהיה is decided by the context.- "on account of" (comp. ix. 8).—7 "the enemy," from from, (Is. v. 30), Rt. 77 (comp. from 1, from yy), the qāmāç is on account of the disjunctive accent.— וַאֲשלח is the correct reading (not '). Some of these cases, in which we have và when we should have expected và, may be explained as being the Imperf. of repeated action, as WN) (Judg. vi. 9) “and I kept driving them,” (xx. 6) ❝ and kept sending her” (comp. T: Zech. vii. 14). But others anomalous vocalization as pieces," can only be explained as instances of NI (Judg. xx. 6) "and I cut her in T :: (2 Sam. i. 10) and I slew him." Và' shallách... brē'éhū render “and I kept letting loose all men against one another." 11 But now I will not be unto the residue of this people as in the former days, saith the LORD of hosts. 12 For the seed shall be prosperous; the vine shall give her fruit, and the ground shall give her increase, and the heavens shall give their dew; and I will cause the remnant of this people to possess all these things. 13 And it shall come to pass, that as ye were a curse among the heathen, O house of Judah, and house of Israel; so will I save you, and ye shall be a blessing: fear not, but let your hands be strong. 14 For thus saith the LORD of hosts; As I thought to punish you, when your fathers provoked me to wrath, saith the LORD of hosts, and I repented not: ὁ μισθὸς...οὐκ ἔσται εἰς ὄνησιν καὶ οὐχ ὑπάρξει, not only have they to הנה .from the Rabb. and Aram ,נהנה as נהיה read LXX. enjoy," but they have taken the initial as the Rabb. or Aram. prefix of the Fut. (comp. p. 51); Min haççár.....ảñò tîs Oλíþews καὶ ἐξαποστελῶ. Cayyāmím hārìshōním denotes "as in the former days," since after a preposition is often understood, e.g. (Is. ix. 3) מדין Verses 11-13. Constructions and Versions. as in the day of Midian."—" "I am," or as E. V. "I will be"; there is no need with LXX. to supply any such verb as Tol.-"for" introduces an assurance in proof of the statement of ver. 11. Zéra' hashshālóm “the seed [which flourishes only in times] of peace," viz. haggéphen "the vine." In Jer. ii. 21 the word zéra“ “seed" is used of p (see p. 12) in the expression no "genuine seed" (the xaλòv σтépμa of Matt. xiii. 24). For cí zéra' shalóm Syr. gives "for the seed shall be in peace." LXX. ảλλ' î Seíέw eipývnv, cí might possibly stand for (as in Gen. xxxi. 16 after a negative sentence); but here there is hardly sufficient contrast between the two sentences to justify this rendering. For they read possibly, Hiph. of y, which they render by deíkvuμ in Gen. xli. 39, &c. Verses 14-17. (comp. i. 6) in the 1st pers. Perf. this verb occurs here only in its uncontracted form, and only in Jer. iv. 28 contracted 'pi.—V·ló nichámti “and I repented not,” LXX. kaì où μetevóŋσa, see p. 19.—' ' "I have again purposed,” comp. (Hos. v. 11) "he went willingly," (Gen. xxx. 31) "I will again feed" (comp. p. 46). LXX. παρατέταγμαι καὶ διανενόημαι (in i. 6 they render bει by παρατέτακται), 15 So again have I thought in these days to do well unto Jerusalem and to the house of Judah: fear ye not. 16 These are the things that ye shall do; Speak ye every man the truth to his neighbour; execute the judgment of truth and peace in your gates: 17 And let none of you imagine evil in your hearts against his neighbour; and love no false oath: for all these are things that I hate, saith the LORD. hosts came unto me, saying, 19 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; The fast of the fourth month, and the fast of the fifth, and the fast of the seventh, and the fast of the tenth, shall be to the house of Judah joy and gladness, and cheerful feasts; therefore love the truth and peace. 20 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; It shall yet come to pass, that there shall come people, and the inhabitants of many cities: 21 And the inhabitants of one 18 And the word of the LORD of city shall go to another, saying, here they may have read "I thought," "I intended," for "w; or, perhaps, taking shábhtī as “again," they paraphrased the expression by two words of cognate meaning.—у¬- (ver. 16) eth here means "with." — Vish eth-rā'áth rẽ'éhū see note on vii. 10.-Cí eth-col-élleh "sher ṣānéthī see note on vii. 7, and add as an example of this con .את הדבר אשר כרתי אתכם בצאתכם ממצרים (5 .struction (Hag. ii LXX. simply διότι ταῦτα πάντα ἐμίσησα. Verse 19. LXX. and Constructions. "the fast of the fourth [month]." LXX., after the analogy of (Gen. i. 31) vyoteía y téμπтη, and so also with the others. After εἰς χαρὰν is inserted καὶ εὐφρο σύνην, and after καὶ εἰς ἑορτὰς ἀγαθάς is inserted καὶ εὐφραν Onoeoe. The of vha méth, like the Arab. fa, denotes "therefore," comp. (Ezek. xviii. 32) "For I have no pleasure in the death of him that dieth... !! therefore repent ye and live." (The ↑ of v'àmartá (i. 3) might be so taken, as indeed it is by the E. V.) In such a case the is usually prefixed to the verb; but here the objects hà méth v'hashshālóm are put first for the sake of emphasis. 23 .as in ver עד יהיה אשר comp. ver. 4) stands for) עד אשר is אשר In both cases אשר is understood before יהיה - טוב אשר Verse 20. and LXX. Constructions equivalent to "that," comp. (Eccles. v. 4) For the expression áchath el-áchath " one to another" comp. Ex. Verses 21, 22. xxxvi. 10, 12, 13. and (with final) are certainly "energetics," or "voluntatives" here (see p. 6).— The absol. Infin, hālóc, though put after the verb is used for the sake of Constructions and LXX. |