Footnotes

1. Nahum 2:7 Literally “It is decreed that she be exiled and led away.” MT reads the very enigmatic “And he is placed, she is sent into exile, she is taken up.” The BHS editors suggest the conjectural emendation “And her goddess = the idol of the patron deity of Nineveh is taken and taken into exile.” This is adopted in the translation on the basis of internal evidence
2. Nahum 2:8 MT reads “from her days.” Greek LXX and Syriac Peshitta reflect “from her waters”
3. Nahum 2:8 Literally “And they flee away”
4. Nahum 2:9 Literally “the supply”
5. Nahum 2:9 Literally “every kind of desirable object”