14:15 But you were brought down 1 to Sheol,
to the remote slopes of the pit. 2
22:19 I will remove you from 3 your office;
you will be thrown down 4 from your position.
32:16 Justice will settle down in the desert
and fairness will live in the orchard. 5
1 tn The prefixed verb form is taken as a preterite. Note the use of perfects in v. 12 to describe the king’s downfall.
2 tn The Hebrew term בּוּר (bor, “cistern”) is sometimes used metaphorically to refer to the place of the dead or the entrance to the underworld.
3 tn Heb “I will push you away from.”
4 tn Heb “he will throw you down.” The shift from the first to third person is peculiar and abrupt, but certainly not unprecedented in Hebrew poetry. See GKC 462 §144.p. The third person may be indefinite (“one will throw you down”), in which case the passive translation is justified.
5 sn This new era of divine blessing will also include a moral/ethical transformation, as justice and fairness fill the land and replace the social injustice so prevalent in Isaiah’s time.