Discovery BoxIsaiah 1:19 
Context1:19 If you have a willing attitude and obey, 1
then you will again eat the good crops of the land.
Isaiah 19:6
Context19:6 The canals 2 will stink; 3
the streams of Egypt will trickle and then dry up;
the bulrushes and reeds will decay,
Isaiah 21:12
Context21:12 The watchman replies,
“Morning is coming, but then night. 4
If you want to ask, ask;
come back again.” 5
Isaiah 38:9
Context38:9 This is the prayer of King Hezekiah of Judah when he was sick and then recovered from his illness:
Isaiah 63:18
Context63:18 For a short time your special 6 nation possessed a land, 7
but then our adversaries knocked down 8 your holy sanctuary.
1 tn Heb “listen”; KJV “obedient”; NASB “If you consent and obey.”
2 tn Heb “rivers” (so KJV, ASV); NAB, CEV “streams”; TEV “channels.”
3 tn The verb form appears as a Hiphil in the Qumran scroll 1QIsaa; the form in MT may be a so-called “mixed form,” reflecting the Hebrew Hiphil stem and the functionally corresponding Aramaic Aphel stem. See HALOT 276 s.v. I זנח.
4 sn Dumah will experience some relief, but it will be short-lived as night returns.
5 sn The point of the watchman’s final instructions (“if you want to ask, ask; come again”) is unclear. Perhaps they are included to add realism to the dramatic portrayal. The watchman sends the questioner away with the words, “Feel free to come back and ask again.”
6 tn Or “holy” (ASV, NASB, NRSV, TEV, NLT).
7 tn Heb “for a short time they had a possession, the people of your holiness.”
8 tn Heb “your adversaries trampled on.”
