[431] LXX. Ἀίθιοπες; but these are Kush, and the parallelism requires a tribe in Arabia. Calvin rejects the meaning _Ethiopian_ on the same ground, but takes the reference as to King Kushan in Judg. iii. 8, 10, on account of the parallelism with Midian. The Midianite wife whom Moses married is called the Kushite (Num. xii. 1). Hommel (_Anc. Hebrew Tradition as illustrated by the Monuments_, p. 315 and n. 1) appears to take Zerah the Kushite of 2 Chron. xiv. 9 ff. as a prince of Kush in Central Arabia. But the narrative which makes him deliver his invasion of Judah at Mareshah surely confirms the usual opinion that he and his host were Ethiopians coming up from Egypt. [432] For הבנהרים, _is it with streams_, read הבהרים, _is it with hills_: because hills have already been mentioned, and rivers occur in the next clause, and are separated by the same disjunctive particle, אִם, which separates _the sea_ in the third clause from them. The whole phrase might be rendered, _Is it with hills_ Thou art _angry, O Jehovah_? [433] Questionable: the verb תֵּעוֹר, Ni. of a supposed עוּר, does not elsewhere occur, and is only conjectured from the noun עֶרְוָה, _nakedness_, and עֶרְיָה, _stripping_. LXX. has ἐντείνων ἐνέτεινας, and Wellhausen reads, after 2 Sam. xxiii. 18, עוֹרֵר תְּעוֹרֵר, _Thou bringest into action Thy bow_. [434]‎ שְׁבֻעוֹת מַטּוֹת אֹמֶר, literally _sworn are staves_ or _rods of speech_. A.V.: according _to the oaths of the tribes_, even Thy _word_. LXX. (omitting שְׁבֻעוֹת and adding יהוה) ἐπὶ σκῆπτρα, λέγει κύριος. These words “form a riddle which all the ingenuity of scholars has not been able to solve. Delitzsch calculates that a hundred translations of them have been offered” (Davidson). In parallel to previous clause about a _bow_, we ought to expect מטות, _staves_, though it is not elsewhere used for _shafts_ or _arrows_. שׁבעות may have been שַׂבֵּעְתָּ, _Thou satest_. The Cod. Barb. reads: ἐχόρτασας βολίδας τῆς φαρέτρης αὐτοῦ, _Thou hast satiated the shafts of his quiver_. Sinker: _sworn are the punishments of the solemn decree_, and relevantly compares Isa. xi. 4, _the rod of His mouth_; xxx. 32, _rod of doom_. Ewald: _sevenfold shafts of war_. But cf. Psalm cxviii. 12. [435] Uncertain, but a more natural result of cleaving than _the rivers Thou cleavest into dry land_ (Davidson and Wellhausen). [436] But Ewald takes this as of the Red Sea floods sweeping on the Egyptians. [437]‎ רום ידיהו נשא = _he lifts up his hands on high_. But the LXX. read מריהו, φαντασίας αὐτῆς, and took נשא with the next verse. The reading מריהו (for מראיהו) is indeed nonsense, but suggests an emendation to מרזחו, _his shout or wail_: cf. Amos vi. 7, Jer. xvi. 5. [438] Reading for הושיע ישע, required by the acc. following. _Thine anointed_, lit. _Thy Messiah_, according to Isa. xl. ff. the whole people.