19:10 Those who make cloth 1 will be demoralized; 2
all the hired workers will be depressed. 3
22:1 Here is a message about the Valley of Vision: 4
What is the reason 5
that all of you go up to the rooftops?
29:20 For tyrants will disappear,
those who taunt will vanish,
and all those who love to do wrong will be eliminated 6 –
1 tn Some interpret שָׁתֹתֶיהָ (shatoteha) as “her foundations,” i.e., leaders, nobles. See BDB 1011 s.v. שָׁת. Others, on the basis of alleged cognates in Akkadian and Coptic, repoint the form שְׁתִיתֶיהָ (shÿtiteha) and translate “her weavers.” See J. N. Oswalt, Isaiah (NICOT), 1:370.
2 tn Heb “crushed.” Emotional distress is the focus of the context (see vv. 8-9, 10b).
3 tn Heb “sad of soul”; cf. NIV, NLT “sick at heart.”
4 sn The following message pertains to Jerusalem. The significance of referring to the city as the Valley of Vision is uncertain. Perhaps the Hinnom Valley is in view, but why it is associated with a prophetic revelatory “vision” is not entirely clear. Maybe the Hinnom Valley is called this because the destruction that will take place there is the focal point of this prophetic message (see v. 5).
5 tn Heb “What to you, then?”
6 tn Heb “and all the watchers of wrong will be cut off.”