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In this section, the LORD gives reasons for his anger against Israel. It was necessary to judge them because they continued to rebel against him.
Here are some other possible headings for this section:
Final Judgment on Israel (GNT)
The Lord’s Relentless Judgment on Israel (ESV)
Ephraim’s Idolatry (NASB)
In this paragraph, the LORD continues to speak.
The NRSV has been used as the source line for 13:9a–b because of the recommended interpretation and textual options.
You are destroyed, O Israel,
¶ “O Israel, I will destroy you(sing).
¶ “I will destroy you(plur) people of Israel.
(NRSV) I will destroy you, O Israel: In Hebrew, this clause is literally “it/he has destroyed you Israel.” There are four interpretations of the subject of this clause:
The LORD destroys Israel.Two possible ways to justify this view are: 1) The MT pronoun “it/he” refers to the lion or wild animal of 13:8. The animal represents the LORD. Therefore, logically “it/he” refers to the LORD. See Garrett (pages 259–260). 2) There is a textual error in the MT. The Hebrew word should be 1st person pronoun, “I.” See Stuart (page 200) and Andersen and Freedman (page 636). For example:
“I will destroy you, people of Israel! (GNT) (GNT, NCV, NET, NRSV, REB)
Israel destroys itself. For example:
Israel, you have destroyed yourself (NJB) (GW, KJV, NJB)
The destroyer is unspecified. For example:
“You are destroyed, O Israel (NIV) (BSB, CEV, NIV, NJPS, NLT)
Hatred of the LORD destroys Israel. For example:
It is your destruction, O Israel, that you are against me, against your help. (NASB) (NASB)
It is recommended that you follow interpretation (1). It makes good sense following the animal descriptions in 13:7–8. The Hebrew verb pattern also best matches this interpretation.The MT has a Piel pattern. However, the expected pattern for reflexive and/or passive interpretations (2) and (3) is Niphal or Hophal. Interpretation (4) is possible but it is a minority view among versions and scholars.
The verb tense/aspect of this clause is probably prophetic perfect. A prophetic perfect presents a future event as if it has already happened.See the BART interlinear “it will destroy you” citing van der Merwe, A Biblical Hebrew Reference Grammar for Students, chapter 19.2.5 ii. This also matches the future time frame of the animal descriptions in 13:7–8. The majority of versions that follow interpretation (1) translate the verb as future.
because you are against Me—against your helper.
Who then can help you?(sing) No one!
No one can help you(plur).
(NRSV) who can help you?: There is a textual variant of this clause:
The LXX and the Peshitta have a rhetorical question: “who will help you?”Instead of the MT ki-bi bǝʿezreka “but in me is your help,” the LXX may be based on a different Hebrew text ki-mi bǝʿezreka “for who is your help.” See the NET footnote on “Who” for this verse. This option is supported by Stuart (pages 204–205) and Davies (page 292). For example:
Who is there to help you? (NET) (CEV, GNT, NCV, NET, NRSV, REB)
The Masoretic Text has a statement: “for in me in your help.” For example:
though in me lies your help (NJB) (BSB, ESV, GW, NASB, NIV, NJPS, NJB, NLT)
It is recommended that you follow option (1). It is a fitting introduction to the rhetorical questions in the following verse. It is also recommended by the editors of the BHS.The Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia, the standard edition of the Masoretic Text. See the NET footnote on “Who” for this verse.
The implied answer to this question is “Not me” or “No one.” If a rhetorical question is unnatural in your language, you may translate it as a statement. For example:
Don’t expect help from me. (CEV)
Yahweh is speaking.
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / rquestion
(Occurrence 0) who will be able to help you?
(Some words not found in UHB: it,will_destroy_you Yisrael that/for/because/then/when in,me in,helper_of,your )
Yahweh uses a question to emphasize that no one will be able to help the people of Israel. Alternate translation: “there will be no on able to help you.”
13:9 me, your only helper: See Pss 70:5; 115:9; 121:2; 124:8. Israel’s sin had turned their helper into their destroyer.
Note: The OET-RV is still only a first draft, and so far only a few words have been (mostly automatically) matched to the Hebrew or Greek words that they’re translated from.
Acknowledgements: The Hebrew text, lemmas, and morphology are all thanks to the OSHB and some of the glosses are from Macula Hebrew.