1:19 If you have a willing attitude and obey, 1
then you will again eat the good crops of the land.
21:5 Arrange the table,
lay out 2 the carpet,
eat and drink! 3
Get up, you officers,
smear oil on the shields! 4
30:24 The oxen and donkeys used in plowing 5
will eat seasoned feed winnowed with a shovel and pitchfork. 6
1 tn Heb “listen”; KJV “obedient”; NASB “If you consent and obey.”
2 tn The precise meaning of the verb in this line is debated. Some prefer to derive the form from the homonymic צָפֹה (tsafoh, “keep watch”) and translate “post a guard” (cf. KJV “watch in the watchtower”; ASV “set the watch”).
3 tn The verbal forms in the first three lines are infinitives absolute, which are functioning here as finite verbs. It is uncertain if the forms should have an imperatival or indicative/descriptive force here.
4 sn Smearing the shields with oil would make them more flexible and effective in battle. See J. N. Oswalt, Isaiah (NICOT), 1:394.
5 tn Heb “the oxen and the donkeys that work the ground.”
6 sn Crops will be so abundant that even the work animals will eat well.