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12:9 \u201cIs My estate a blood-splattered vulture? Are the vultures circling round her? Go gather all beasts of the field, bring them to the devouring.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

A blood-splattered vulture<\/span><\/em>: This phrase is a famous crux. The word <\/span>tsavu\u2019a<\/span><\/em> does mean \u201cpainted,\u201d as some understood it in later Hebrew, but is not used in this sense elsewhere in the Bible, and painting birds of prey would be a strange practice. Lundbom finesses this by translating it as \u201cspeckled.\u201d Others link it with the Hebrew word for \u201cfinger\u201d and suggest that it refers to sharp claws. This translation follows Rashi and Kimchi, assuming that the relentlessness of the bird as a scavenger is emphasized. In later Hebrew, the phrase became a term for \u201chypocrite,\u201d with <\/span>tsavu\u2019a<\/span><\/em> itself having that meaning. The usage was based on the idea that the bird was actually painted, passing itself off as something it was not.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

[editor\u2019s note: Compare the JPS translation on the page: \u201cMy own people acts toward Me Like a bird of prey [or] a hyena; Let the birds of prey surround her! Go, gather all the wild beasts, Bring them to devour!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

From: Robert Alter, The Hebrew Bible<\/em>, vol. 2: Prophets, W. W. Norton & Co., 2019, ad loc. By permission of the author<\/span><\/p>\n

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