Discovery BoxIsaiah 13:18 
Context13:18 Their arrows will cut young men to ribbons; 1
they have no compassion on a person’s offspring, 2
they will not 3 look with pity on children.
Isaiah 29:21
Context29:21 those who bear false testimony against a person, 4
who entrap the one who arbitrates at the city gate 5
and deprive the innocent of justice by making false charges. 6
1 tn Heb “and bows cut to bits young men.” “Bows” stands by metonymy for arrows.
2 tn Heb “the fruit of the womb.”
3 tn Heb “their eye does not.” Here “eye” is a metonymy for the whole person.
4 tn Heb “the ones who make a man a sinner with a word.” The Hiphil of חָטָא (khata’) here has a delocutive sense: “declare a man sinful/guilty.”
5 sn Legal disputes were resolved at the city gate, where the town elders met. See Amos 5:10.
6 tn Heb “and deprive by emptiness the innocent.”
