_ 428 As heads_ obviously belongs to this second line of the quatrain, from which some copyist has removed it to the fourth. 429 So Hebrew literally. 430 Pp. 56 f. The date is quite uncertain. 431 The text of the first four lines is uncertain. I have mainly followed the Greek. _Begging_, if we borrow the sense of the verb in Syriac, otherwise _huckstering_, _peddling_. 432 Hos. vi. 1-4. 433 P. 189. 434 Hebrew and some Greek MSS. add _against thee_. 435 Hebrew, _they turned not from their ways_. 436 The text of verse 8 is uncertain. I have mainly followed the Greek. 437 Hebrew adds _Rede of the Lord_. 438 Lecture vii. 439 Hebrew adds _nor bemoan them_, an expansion. 440 Hebrew adds _Rede of the Lord, even kindness and compassion_; verses 6 and 7 are expansion. 441 Hebrew adds _when their children remember their altars and Asherim_ rightly taken by Duhm and Cornill as a gloss. 442 Hebrew adds _in thee_ for which some read _thy hand_. 443 These four verses along with the phrase _Thus saith the Lord_ which follows them are lacking in Greek. This is clearly due to the oversight of a copyist, his eye passing inadvertently from _the Lord_ of xvi. 21 to _the Lord_ of xvii. 5. 444 See pp. 53, 54. 445 Cp. “Isaiah,” lvi. 2-7, lviii. 13, 14; Neh. xiii. 15-22. 446 A much manipulated verse! _Mountain_, taking _sadai_ in its archaic sense as in Assyrian and some Hebrew poems, Jud. v. 4, Deut. xxxii. 13 (see the writer’s “Deut.” in the “Camb. Bible for Schools”) where it is parallel to _highlands_, _rock_ and _flinty rock_. The following emendations of the text are therefore unnecessary, and are more or less forced. _Sirion_ (Duhm, Cornill, Peake, McFadyen, Skinner); _missurîm = from the rocks_ (Rothstein). The Greek takes _sadai_ as _breasts_ and nominative to the verb: _Do the breasts of the rock give out?_—not a bad figure. _Hill-streams_ reading _mêmê harîm_ (Rothstein) for the Hebrew _maîm zarîm = strange_ (? far off) _streams_. Ewald takes _zarîm_ from _zarar = to rush, press_. Duhm reads _mĕzarîm = Northstar_. Cornill turns the couplet to _Or do dry up from the western sea the flowing waters?_ Gillies, _the wet winds from the sea_, etc., for which there is a suggestion in the Greek α μῳ. 447 See p. 149, n. 1 448 So some MSS.; the text has _like_. 449 Pp. 191 ff. 450 Pp. 164-167. 451 Duhm’s objection to this title as a mistake by an editor is groundless; for though the following lines are addressed to the land or people as a whole, their climax is upon the fate of the royal house, _the choice of thy cedars_. 452 Hebrew adds _many_. 453 Greek _from over the sea_. 454 Greek, Syriac, Vulgate. 455 Hebrew _thee_. 456 Hebrew adds _to return thither_; Greek lacks.