[182] Wellhausen _despair_.
[183] Heb. _the jubilant ones of thine arrogance_.
[184] See vv. 4, 5, 11.
[185] Heb. _the_.
[186] מִשְׁפָּטַיִךְ. But Wellhausen reads מְשׁוֹפְטַיִךְ, thine adversaries: cf. Job ix. 15.
[187] Reading תִּרְאִי (with LXX., Wellhausen and Schwally) for תִּירָאִי of the Hebrew text, _fear_.
[188] Lit. _hero_, _mighty man_.
[189] Heb. _will be silent in_, יַחֲרִישׁ, but not in harmony with the next clause. LXX. and Syr. render _will make new_, which translates יַחֲדִישׁ, a form that does not elsewhere occur, though that is no objection to finding it in Zephaniah, or יְחַדֵּשׁ. Hitzig: _He makes new things in His love_. Buhl: _He renews His love_. Schwally suggests יחדה, _He rejoices in His love_.
[190] LXX. _In the days of thy festival_, which it takes with the previous verse. The Heb. construction is ungrammatical, though not unprecedented—the construct state before a preposition. Besides נוגי is obscure in meaning. It is a Ni. pt. for נוגה from יגה, _to be sad_: cf. the Pi. in Lam. iii. 33. But the Hiphil הוגה in 2 Sam. xx. 13, followed (as here) by מן, means _to thrust away from_, and that is probably the sense here.
[191] LXX. _thine oppressed_ in acc. governed by the preceding verb, which in LXX. begins the verse.
[192] The Heb., מַשְׂאֵת, _burden of_, is unintelligible. Wellhausen proposes מִשְׂאֵת עֲלֵיהֶ.
[193] This rendering is only a venture in the almost impossible task of restoring the text of the clause. As it stands the Heb. runs, _Behold, I am about to do_, or _deal, with thine oppressors_ (which Hitzig and Ewald accept). Schwally points מְעַנַּיִךְ (active) as a passive, מְעֻנַּיִךְ, _thine oppressed_. LXX. has ἰδοὺ ἐγὼ ποιῶ ἐν σοὶ ἕνεκεν σοῦ, _i.e._ it read אִתֵּךְ לְמַעֲנֵךְ. Following its suggestion we might read אֶת־כֹּל לְמַעֲנֵךְ, and so get the above translation.
[194] Micah iv. 6.
[195] This rendering (Ewald’s) is doubtful. The verse concludes with _in the whole earth their shame_. But בָּשְׁתָּם may be a gloss. LXX. take it as a verb with the next verse.
[196] LXX. _do good to you_; perhaps אטיב for אביא.
[197] So Heb. literally, but the construction is very awkward. Perhaps we should read _in that time I will gather you_.
[198] _Before your eyes_, _i.e._ in your lifetime. It is doubtful whether ver. 20 is original to the passage. For it is simply a variation on ver. 19, and it has more than one impossible reading: see previous note, and for שבותיכם read שבותכם.