15:4 The people of 1 Heshbon and Elealeh cry out,
their voices are heard as far away as Jahaz.
For this reason Moab’s soldiers shout in distress;
their courage wavers. 2
21:10 O my downtrodden people, crushed like stalks on the threshing floor, 3
what I have heard
from the Lord who commands armies,
the God of Israel,
I have reported to you.
28:22 So now, do not mock,
or your chains will become heavier!
For I have heard a message about decreed destruction,
from the sovereign master, the Lord who commands armies, against the entire land. 4
37:26 6 Certainly you must have heard! 7
Long ago I worked it out,
in ancient times I planned 8 it,
and now I am bringing it to pass.
The plan is this:
Fortified cities will crash
into heaps of ruins. 9
39:1 At that time Merodach-Baladan son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters and a gift to Hezekiah, for he heard that Hezekiah had been ill and had recovered.
40:28 Do you not know?
Have you not heard?
The Lord is an eternal God,
the creator of the whole earth. 11
He does not get tired or weary;
there is no limit to his wisdom. 12
48:6 You have heard; now look at all the evidence! 13
Will you not admit that what I say is true? 14
From this point on I am announcing to you new events
that are previously unrevealed and you do not know about. 15
60:18 Sounds of violence 16 will no longer be heard in your land,
or the sounds of 17 destruction and devastation within your borders.
You will name your walls, ‘Deliverance,’
and your gates, ‘Praise.’
1 tn The words “the people of” are supplied in the translation for clarification.
2 tc The Hebrew text has, “For this reason the soldiers of Moab shout, his inner being quivers for him.” To achieve tighter parallelism, some emend the first line, changing חֲלֻצֵי (khalutse, “soldiers”) to חַלְצֵי (khaltse, “loins”) and יָרִיעוּ (yari’u, “they shout,” from רוּעַ, rua’) to יָרְעוּ (yor’u, “they quiver”), a verb from יָרַע (yara’), which also appears in the next line. One can then translate v. 4b as “For this reason the insides of the Moabites quiver, their whole body shakes” (cf. NAB, NRSV).
3 tn Heb “My trampled one, and the son of the threshing floor.”
4 tn Or “the whole earth” (KJV, ASV, NAB, NCV).
5 tn Heb “by which the servants of the king of Assyria have insulted me.”
6 tn Having quoted the Assyrian king’s arrogant words in vv. 23-24, the Lord now speaks to the king.
7 tn Heb “Have you not heard?” The rhetorical question expresses the Lord’s amazement that anyone might be ignorant of what he is about to say.
8 tn Heb “formed” (so KJV, ASV).
9 tn Heb “and it is to cause to crash into heaps of ruins fortified cities.” The subject of the third feminine singular verb תְהִי (tÿhi) is the implied plan, referred to in the preceding lines with third feminine singular pronominal suffixes.
10 tn Heb “father” (so KJV, NAB, NIV).
11 tn Heb “the ends of the earth,” but this is a merism, where the earth’s extremities stand for its entirety, i.e., the extremities and everything in between them.
12 sn Exiled Israel’s complaint (v. 27) implies that God might be limited in some way. Perhaps he, like so many of the pagan gods, has died. Or perhaps his jurisdiction is limited to Judah and does not include Babylon. Maybe he is unable to devise an adequate plan to rescue his people, or is unable to execute it. But v. 28 affirms that he is not limited temporally or spatially nor is his power and wisdom restricted in any way. He can and will deliver his people, if they respond in hopeful faith (v. 31a).
13 tn Heb “gaze [at] all of it”; KJV “see all this.”
14 tn Heb “[as for] you, will you not declare?”
15 tn Heb “and hidden things, and you do not know them.”
16 tn The words “sounds of” are supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons.
17 tn The words “sounds of” are supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons.