10:14 My hand discovered the wealth of the nations, as if it were in a nest,
as one gathers up abandoned eggs,
I gathered up the whole earth.
There was no wing flapping,
or open mouth chirping.” 1
14:13 You said to yourself, 2
“I will climb up to the sky.
Above the stars of El 3
I will set up my throne.
I will rule on the mountain of assembly
on the remote slopes of Zaphon. 4
15:2 They went up to the temple, 5
the people of Dibon went up to the high places to lament. 6
Because of what happened to Nebo and Medeba, 7 Moab wails.
Every head is shaved bare,
every beard is trimmed off. 8
52:1 Wake up! Wake up!
Clothe yourself with strength, O Zion!
Put on your beautiful clothes,
O Jerusalem, 10 holy city!
For uncircumcised and unclean pagans
will no longer invade you.
56:5 I will set up within my temple and my walls a monument 11
that will be better than sons and daughters.
I will set up a permanent monument 12 for them that will remain.
1 sn The Assyrians’ conquests were relatively unopposed, like robbing a bird’s nest of its eggs when the mother bird is absent.
2 tn Heb “you, you said in your heart.”
3 sn In Canaanite mythology the stars of El were astral deities under the authority of the high god El.
4 sn Zaphon, the Canaanite version of Olympus, was the “mountain of assembly” where the gods met.
5 tn Heb “house.”
6 tn Heb “even Dibon [to] the high places to weep.” The verb “went up” does double duty in the parallel structure.
7 tn Heb “over [or “for”] Nebo and over [or “for”] Medeba.”
8 sn Shaving the head and beard were outward signs of mourning and grief.
9 sn In v. 10 the chief adviser develops further the argument begun in v. 7. He claims that Hezekiah has offended the Lord and that the Lord has commissioned Assyria as his instrument of discipline and judgment.
10 map For location see Map5-B1; Map6-F3; Map7-E2; Map8-F2; Map10-B3; JP1-F4; JP2-F4; JP3-F4; JP4-F4.
11 tn Heb “a hand and a name.” For other examples where יָד (yad) refers to a monument, see HALOT 388 s.v.
12 tn Heb “name” (so KJV, NIV, NRSV).