[916] Above, pp. 372 ff.
[917] Cf. with it Exod. xxxiv. 6, 7 (J); Jer. iii. 5, l. 20; Isa. lvii. 16; Psalms ciii. 9, cv. 9, 10.
[918] It was a woman who spoke before, the People or the City. But the second personal pronouns to which this reply of the prophet is addressed are all masculine. Notice the same change in vi. 9-16 (above p. 427).
[919] ירחק־חק, Ewald: "distant the date." Notice the assonance. It explains the use of the unusual word for _border_. LXX. _thy border_. The LXX. also takes into ver. 11 (as above) the הוא יום of ver. 12.
[920] Something has probably been lost here.
[921] For ההר read מהר.
[922] It is difficult to get sense when translating the conjunction in any other way. But these two lines may belong to the following.
[923] The words omitted above are literally _jungle in the midst of gardenland_ or _Carmel_. Plausible as it would be to take the proper name Carmel here along with Bashan and Gilead (see _Hist. Geog._, 338), the connection prefers the common noun _garden_ or _gardenland_: translate "dwelling alone like a bit of jungle in the midst of cultivated land." Perhaps the clause needs rearrangement: יערבתוככרמל, with a verb to introduce it. Yet compare כַּרְמִלּוֹ יַעַר, 2 Kings xix. 23; Isa. xxxvii. 24.
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