Discovery BoxIsaiah 12:2 
Context12:2 Look, God is my deliverer! 1
I will trust in him 2 and not fear.
For the Lord gives me strength and protects me; 3
he has become my deliverer.” 4
Isaiah 22:15
Context22:15 This is what the sovereign master, the Lord who commands armies, says:
“Go visit this administrator, Shebna, who supervises the palace, 5 and tell him: 6
Isaiah 25:10
Context25:10 For the Lord’s power will make this mountain secure. 7
Moab will be trampled down where it stands, 8
as a heap of straw is trampled down in 9 a manure pile.
1 tn Or “salvation” (KJV, NIV, NRSV).
2 tn The words “in him” are supplied in the translation for clarification.
3 tc The Hebrew text has, “for my strength and protection [is] the Lord, the Lord (Heb “Yah, Yahweh).” The word יְהוָה (yehvah) is probably dittographic or explanatory here (note that the short form of the name [יָהּ, yah] precedes, and that the graphically similar וַיְהִי [vayÿhi] follows). Exod 15:2, the passage from which the words of v. 2b are taken, has only יָהּ. The word זִמְרָת (zimrat) is traditionally understood as meaning “song,” in which case one might translate, “for the Lord gives me strength and joy” (i.e., a reason to sing); note that in v. 5 the verb זָמַר (zamar, “sing”) appears. Many recent commentators, however, have argued that the noun is here instead a homonym, meaning “protection” or “strength.” See HALOT 274 s.v. III *זמר.
4 tn Or “salvation” (so many English versions, e.g., KJV, NIV, NRSV, NLT); NAB “my savior.”
5 tn Heb “who is over the house” (so ASV); NASB “who is in charge of the royal household.”
6 tn The words “and tell him” are supplied in the translation for clarification.
7 tn Heb “for the hand of the Lord will rest on this mountain”; TEV “will protect Mount Zion”; NCV “will protect (rest on NLT) Jerusalem.”
8 tn Heb “under him,” i.e., “in his place.”
9 tc The marginal reading (Qere) is בְּמוֹ (bÿmo, “in”). The consonantal text (Kethib) has בְּמִי (bÿmi, “in the water of”).
