Discovery BoxIsaiah 17:12 
Context17:12 The many nations massing together are as good as dead, 1
those who make a commotion as loud as the roaring of the sea’s waves. 2
The people making such an uproar are as good as dead, 3
those who make an uproar as loud as the roaring of powerful waves. 4
Isaiah 17:14
Context17:14 In the evening there is sudden terror; 5
by morning they vanish. 6
This is the fate of those who try to plunder us,
the destiny of those who try to loot us! 7
1 tn Heb “Woe [to] the massing of the many nations.” The word הוֹי (hoy) could be translated as a simple interjection here (“ah!”), but since the following verses announce the demise of these nations, it is preferable to take הוֹי as a funeral cry. See the note on the first phrase of 1:4.
2 tn Heb “like the loud noise of the seas, they make a loud noise.”
3 tn Heb “the uproar of the peoples.” The term הוֹי (hoy, “woe, ah”) does double duty in the parallel structure of the verse; the words “are as good as dead” are supplied in the translation to reflect this.
4 tn Heb “like the uproar of mighty waters they are in an uproar.”
5 tn Heb “at the time of evening, look, sudden terror.”
6 tn Heb “before morning he is not.”
7 tn Heb “this is the portion of those who plunder us, and the lot of those who loot us.”
