[145] Canaan omitted by Wellhausen, who reads עליך for עליכם. But as the metre requires a larger number of syllables in the first line of each couplet than in the second, Kĕna’an should probably remain. The difficulty is the use of Canaan as synonymous with _Land of the Philistines_. Nowhere else in the Old Testament is it expressly applied to the coast south of Carmel, though it is so used in the Egyptian inscriptions, and even in the Old Testament in a sense which covers this as well as other lowlying parts of Palestine. [146] An odd long line, either the remains of two, or perhaps we should take the two previous lines as one, omitting Canaan. [147] So LXX.: Hebrew text _and the sea-coast shall become dwellings, cots_ (כְּרֹת) _of shepherds_. But the pointing and meaning of כרת are both conjectural, and the _sea-coast_ has probably fallen by mistake into this verse from the next. On Kereth and Kerethim as names for Philistia and the Philistines see _Hist. Geog._, p. 171. [148] LXX. adds _of the sea_. So Wellhausen, but unnecessarily and improbably for phonetic reasons, as sea has to be read in the next line. [149] So Wellhausen, reading for עַל־הַיָּם עֲליהֶם. [150] Some words must have fallen out, for _first_ a short line is required here by the metre, and _second_ the LXX. have some additional words, which, however, give us no help to what the lost line was: ἀπὸ προσώπου υἱῶν Ἰούδα. [151] As stated above, there is no conclusive reason against the pre-exilic date of this expression. [152] Cf. Isa. xvi. 6. [153] LXX. _My._ [154] Doubtful word, not occurring elsewhere. [155] Heb. singular. [156] LXX. omits _the people of_. [157] LXX. _maketh Himself manifest_, נראה for נורא. [158] ἅπαξ λεγόμενον. The passive of the verb means _to grow lean_ (Isa. xvii. 4). [159]‎ מקום has probably here the sense which it has in a few other passages of the Old Testament, and in Arabic, of _sacred place_. Many will share Schwally’s doubts (p. 192) about the authenticity of ver. 11; nor, as Wellhausen points out, does its prediction of the conversion of the heathen agree with ver. 12, which devotes them to destruction. Ver. 12 follows naturally on to ver. 7. [160] Wellhausen reads _His sword_, to agree with the next verse. Perhaps חרבי is an abbreviation for חרב יהוה. [161] See Budde, _Z.A.T.W._, 1882, 25. [162] Heb. reads _a nation_, and Wellhausen translates _ein buntes Gemisch von Volk_. LXX. _beasts of the earth_. [163]‎ קאת, a water-bird according to Deut. xiv. 17, Lev. xi. 18, mostly taken as _pelican_; so R.V. A.V. _cormorant_. קִפֹּד has usually been taken from קפד, to draw together, therefore _hedgehog_ or _porcupine_. But the other animals mentioned here are birds, and it is birds which would naturally roost on capitals. Therefore _bittern_ is the better rendering (Hitzig, Cheyne). The name is onomatopœic. Cf. Eng. butter-dump. LXX. translates _chameleons and hedgehogs_.