Discovery BoxIsaiah 2:22 
Context2:22 Stop trusting in human beings,
whose life’s breath is in their nostrils.
For why should they be given special consideration?
Isaiah 36:5
Context36:5 Your claim to have a strategy and military strength is just empty talk. 1 In whom are you trusting, that you would dare to rebel against me?
Isaiah 47:12
Context47:12 Persist 2 in trusting 3 your amulets
and your many incantations,
which you have faithfully recited 4 since your youth!
Maybe you will be successful 5 –
maybe you will scare away disaster. 6
1 tn Heb “you say only a word of lips, counsel and might for battle.” Sennacherib’s message appears to be in broken Hebrew at this point. The phrase “word of lips” refers to mere or empty talk in Prov 14:23.
2 tn Heb “stand” (so KJV, ASV); NASB, NRSV “Stand fast.”
3 tn The word “trusting” is supplied in the translation for clarification. See v. 9.
4 tn Heb “in that which you have toiled.”
5 tn Heb “maybe you will be able to profit.”
6 tn Heb “maybe you will cause to tremble.” The object “disaster” is supplied in the translation for clarification. See the note at v. 9.
