Jordan, Galilee of the nations”. The word translated in RSV “will make glorious” only once has this meaning in the Hebrew Bible (Jer. 30:19; RSV “make honoured”), and elsewhere means “to make heavy, deal heavily with”; so NEB here, and hence the traditional (AV): “and afterwards did more grievously afflict...” This understanding of the verse suggests an interesting historical background for it. It seems to refer to two of the Assyrian invasions. In 738 B.C. Tiglath-Pileser III invaded Syria