Isaiah 25:10

Hebrew Bible

9 At that time they will say, “Look, here is our God! We waited for him, and he delivered us. Here is the Lord! We waited for him. Let’s rejoice and celebrate his deliverance!” 10 For the hand of the Lord will rest on this mountain23. Moab will be trampled down where it stands, as a heap of straw is trampled down in a manure pile. 11 Moab will spread out its hands in the middle of it, just as a swimmer spreads his hands to swim; the Lord will bring down Moab’s pride as it spreads its hands.

Jonathan Isaiah 25:10

Targum

9 And one shall say at that time: Behold, this is our God; this is he for whom we have hoped, and he shall save us: this is the Lord, for His Word we have hoped; we will rejoice, and be glad in his salvation. 10 For the power of the Lord of hosts shall be revealed in this mountain; and the Moabites shall be trodden under foot even as straw is in the clay. 11 And he shall extend the stroke of his power among them, as the swimmer extends himself to swim; and he shall humble his glory, together with the wiles of his hands.

 Notes and References

"... the Targums are not uniform in the ways they avoid figurative speech about God. Nor do they always agree on which instances call for paraphrase. (In Genesis 1:4, Onkelos and Pseudo-Jonathan translate the Hebrew literally as “God saw the light,” while Neofiti says that it was “manifest before him”) The parts of God’s “body” are also resolved into more literal speech. The “hand of the Lord” becomes his “power” or a “smiting” ... This tendency, too, is not carried out consistently (compare Exodus 13:9 in the various Targums). Much more could be said on this topic; let it suffice to say that the general, but not universal, tendency in the Targums is to avoid attributing bodily actions to God by recasting the words of Scripture at a higher level of abstraction ..."

Cook, Edward M. "The Interpretation of the Hebrew Bible in the Targums" in Henze, Matthias (ed.) A Companion to Biblical Interpretation in Early Judaism (pp. 92-117) William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2012

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