Discovery BoxIsaiah 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 1 and heal them.
Isaiah 37:14
Context37:14 Hezekiah took the letter 2 from the messengers and read it. 3 Then Hezekiah went up to the Lord’s temple and spread it out before the Lord.
Isaiah 37:17
Context37:17 Pay attention, Lord, and hear! Open your eyes, Lord, and observe! Listen to this entire message Sennacherib sent and how he taunts the living God! 4
Isaiah 37:20
Context37:20 Now, O Lord our God, rescue us from his power, so all the kingdoms of the earth may know that you alone are the Lord.” 5
Isaiah 38:20
Context38:20 The Lord is about to deliver me, 6
and we will celebrate with music 7
for the rest of our lives in the Lord’s temple.” 8
Isaiah 40:5
Context40:5 The splendor 9 of the Lord will be revealed,
and all people 10 will see it at the same time.
For 11 the Lord has decreed it.” 12
Isaiah 51:15
Context51:15 I am the Lord your God,
who churns up the sea so that its waves surge.
The Lord who commands armies is his name!
1 tn Heb “he will be entreated.” The Niphal has a tolerative sense here, “he will allow himself to be entreated.”
2 tc The Hebrew text has the plural, “letters.” The final mem (ם) may be dittographic (note the initial mem on the form that immediately follows). Some Greek and Aramaic witnesses have the singular. If so, one still has to deal with the yod that is part of the plural ending. J. N. Oswalt refers to various commentators who have suggested ways to understand the plural form (Isaiah [NICOT], 1:652).
3 tn In the parallel text in 2 Kgs 19:14 the verb has the plural suffix, “them,” but this probably reflects a later harmonization to the preceding textual corruption (of “letter” to “letters”).
4 tn Heb “Hear all the words of Sennacherib which he sent to taunt the living God.”
5 tn The parallel text in 2 Kgs 19:19 reads, “that you, Lord, are the only God.”
6 tn The infinitive construct is used here to indicate that an action is imminent. See GKC 348-49 §114.i, and IBHS 610 §36.2.3g.
7 tn Heb “and music [or perhaps, “stringed instruments”] we will play.”
8 tn Heb “all the days of our lives in the house of the Lord.”
sn Note that vv. 21-22 have been placed between vv. 6-7, where they logically belong. See 2 Kgs 20:7-8.
9 tn Or “glory.” The Lord’s “glory” is his theophanic radiance and royal splendor (see Isa 6:3; 24:23; 35:2; 60:1; 66:18-19).
10 tn Heb “flesh” (so KJV, ASV, NASB); NAB, NIV “mankind”; TEV “the whole human race.”
11 tn Or “indeed.”
12 tn Heb “the mouth of the Lord has spoken” (so NASB, NIV, NRSV).
