diff --git a/amo/09/02.md b/amo/09/02.md index cb488bce10..55d216c2b5 100644 --- a/amo/09/02.md +++ b/amo/09/02.md @@ -1,8 +1,7 @@ -# Though they dig into Sheol, there my hand will take them. Though they climb up to heaven, there I will bring them down +# General Information -Yahweh uses an exaggerated image of people fleeing to Sheol or heaven to try to escape being killed. Here "Sheol" and "heaven" are a merism that represents all places. Alternate translation: "Even if they were to flee to Sheol or to heaven, they would not be able to escape me" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-hyperbole]] and [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-merism]]) +Yahweh uses an exaggerated image of people fleeing to Sheol or heaven to try to escape being killed. -# there my hand will take them - -Here "hand" represents Yahweh's power. Alternate translation: "I will pull them up from there" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-metonymy]]) +# Though they dig into Sheol, there my hand will take them. + "Even if they dig far down to the place of the dead, I will pull them up from there"