Discovery BoxIsaiah 16:12 
Context16:12 When the Moabites plead with all their might at their high places, 1
and enter their temples to pray, their prayers will be ineffective! 2
Isaiah 19:22
Context19:22 The Lord will strike Egypt, striking and then healing them. They will turn to the Lord and he will listen to their prayers 3 and heal them.
Isaiah 59:2
Context59:2 But your sinful acts have alienated you from your God;
your sins have caused him to reject you and not listen to your prayers. 4
1 tn The verb that introduces this verse serves as a discourse particle and is untranslated; see note on “in the future” in 2:2.
2 tn Heb “when he appears, when he grows tired, Moab on the high places, and enters his temple to pray, he will not prevail.” It is possible that “when he grows tired” is an explanatory gloss for the preceding “when he appears.”
3 tn Heb “he will be entreated.” The Niphal has a tolerative sense here, “he will allow himself to be entreated.”
4 tn Heb “and your sins have caused [his] face to be hidden from you so as not to hear.”
