13:16 Their children will be smashed to pieces before their very eyes;
their houses will be looted
and their wives raped.
21:7 When he sees chariots,
teams of horses, 1
riders on donkeys,
riders on camels,
he must be alert,
very alert.”
29:17 In just a very short time 2
Lebanon will turn into an orchard,
and the orchard will be considered a forest. 3
1 tn Or “a pair of horsemen.”
2 tn The Hebrew text phrases this as a rhetorical question, “Is it not yet a little, a short [time]?”
3 sn The meaning of this verse is debated, but it seems to depict a reversal in fortunes. The mighty forest of Lebanon (symbolic of the proud and powerful, see 2:13; 10:34) will be changed into a common orchard, while the common orchard (symbolic of the oppressed and lowly) will grow into a great forest. See J. N. Oswalt, Isaiah (NICOT), 1:538.