22:4 So I say:
“Don’t look at me! 1
I am weeping bitterly.
Don’t try 2 to console me
concerning the destruction of my defenseless people.” 3
37:21 Isaiah son of Amoz sent this message to Hezekiah: “This is what the Lord God of Israel says: ‘Because you prayed to me concerning King Sennacherib of Assyria, 4
1 tn Heb “look away from me” (so KJV, ASV, NRSV).
2 tn Heb “don’t hurry” (so NCV).
3 tn Heb “the daughter of my people.” “Daughter” is here used metaphorically to express the speaker’s emotional attachment to his people, as well as their vulnerability and weakness.
4 tn The parallel text in 2 Kgs 19:20 reads, “That which you prayed to me concerning Sennacherib king of Assyria I have heard.” The verb “I have heard” does not appear in Isa 37:21, where אֲשֶׁר (’asher) probably has a causal sense: “because.”