# inciting to cause someone to act in a harmful or violent way # to deliver us into the hand of the Chaldeans Here "hand" represents power or control. Alternate translation: "to give us over to the Chaldeans" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-metonymy]]) # for you to cause our death and to make us captives in Babylon The abstract noun "death" can be stated as "to kill." Alternate translation: "for you to cause the Chaldeans to either kill us or to take us as captives to Babylon" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-abstractnouns]])