Isaiah 36:11

36:11 Eliakim, Shebna, and Joah said to the chief adviser, “Speak to your servants in Aramaic, for we understand it. Don’t speak with us in the Judahite dialect in the hearing of the people who are on the wall.”

Isaiah 49:20

49:20 Yet the children born during your time of bereavement

will say within your hearing,

‘This place is too cramped for us,

make room for us so we can live here.’


sn Aramaic was the diplomatic language of the Assyrian empire.

tn Or “in Hebrew” (NIV, NCV, NLT); NAB, NASB “in Judean.”

tn Heb “me.” The singular is collective.

tn Heb “draw near to me so I can dwell.”