Discovery BoxIsaiah 3:12 
Context3:12 Oppressors treat my 1 people cruelly;
creditors rule over them. 2
My people’s leaders mislead them;
they give you confusing directions. 3
Isaiah 19:12
Context19:12 But where, oh where, are your wise men? 4
Let them tell you, let them find out
what the Lord who commands armies has planned for Egypt.
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 5 and heal them.
Isaiah 27:4
Context27:4 I am not angry.
I wish I could confront some thorns and briers!
Then I would march against them 6 for battle;
I would set them 7 all on fire,
Isaiah 30:5
Context30:5 all will be put to shame 8
because of a nation that cannot help them,
who cannot give them aid or help,
but only shame and disgrace.”
Isaiah 34:2
Context34:2 For the Lord is angry at all the nations
and furious with all their armies.
He will annihilate them and slaughter them.
Isaiah 34:15
Context34:15 Owls 9 will make nests and lay eggs 10 there;
they will hatch them and protect them. 11
Yes, hawks 12 will gather there,
each with its mate.
Isaiah 48:7
Context48:7 Now they come into being, 13 not in the past;
before today you did not hear about them,
so you could not say,
‘Yes, 14 I know about them.’
Isaiah 50:9
Context50:9 Look, the sovereign Lord helps me.
Who dares to condemn me?
Look, all of them will wear out like clothes;
a moth will eat away at them.
Isaiah 57:17-18
Context57:17 I was angry because of their sinful greed;
I attacked them and angrily rejected them, 15
yet they remained disobedient and stubborn. 16
57:18 I have seen their behavior, 17
but I will heal them and give them rest,
and I will once again console those who mourn. 18
Isaiah 61:8-9
Context61:8 For I, the Lord, love justice
and hate robbery and sin.
I will repay them because of my faithfulness; 19
I will make a permanent covenant with them.
61:9 Their descendants will be known among the nations,
their offspring among the peoples.
All who see them will recognize that
the Lord has blessed them.” 20
Isaiah 65:6
ContextI will not keep silent, but will pay them back;
I will pay them back exactly what they deserve, 22
1 sn This may refer to the prophet or to the Lord.
2 tc The Hebrew text appears to read literally, “My people, his oppressors, he deals severely, and women rule over them.” The correct text and precise meaning of the verse are debated. The translation above assumes (1) an emendation of נֹגְשָׂיו (nogÿsayv, “his oppressors”) to נֹגְשִׂים (nogÿshim, “oppressors”) by moving the mem (ם) on the following form to the end of the word and dropping the vav (ו) as virtually dittographic; (2) an emendation of מְעוֹלֵל (mÿ’olel, a singular participle that does not agree with the preceding plural subject) to עֹלְלוּ (’olÿlu), a third plural Poel perfect from עָלַל (’alal, “deal severely”; note that the following form begins with a vav [ו]; the text may be haplographic or misdivided); and (3) an emendation (with support from the LXX) of נָשִׁים (nashim, “women”) to נֹשִׁים (noshim, “creditors”; a participle from נָשַׁא, nasa’). Another option is to emend מְעוֹלֵל to עוֹלְלִים (’olÿlim, “children”) and read, “My people’s oppressors are children; women rule over them.” In this case the point is the same as in v. 4; the leadership void left by the judgment will be filled by those incompetent to lead the community – children and women. (The text reflects the ancient Israelite patriarchal mindset.)
3 tn Heb “and the way of your paths they confuse.” The verb בָּלַע (bala’, “confuse”; HALOT 135 s.v. I בלע) is a homonym of the more common בָּלַע (“swallow”; see HALOT 134 s.v. בלע).
4 tn Heb “Where are they? Where are your wise men?” The juxtaposition of the interrogative pronouns is emphatic. See HALOT 38 s.v. אֶי.
5 tn Heb “he will be entreated.” The Niphal has a tolerative sense here, “he will allow himself to be entreated.”
6 tn Heb “it.” The feminine singular suffix apparently refers back to the expression “thorns and briers,” understood in a collective sense. For other examples of a cohortative expressing resolve after a hypothetical statement introduced by נָתַן with מִי (miwith natan), see Judg 9:29; Jer 9:1-2; Ps 55:6.
7 tn Heb “it.” The feminine singular suffix apparently refers back to the expression “thorns and briers,” understood in a collective sense.
8 tn The present translation follows the marginal (Qere) reading of the Hebrew text; the consonantal text (Kethib) has “made to stink, decay.”
9 tn Hebrew קִפּוֹז (qippoz) occurs only here; the precise meaning of the word is uncertain.
10 tn For this proposed meaning for Hebrew מָלַט (malat), see HALOT 589 s.v. I מלט.
11 tn Heb “and brood [over them] in her shadow.”
12 tn The precise meaning of דַּיָּה (dayyah) is uncertain, though the term appears to refer to some type of bird of prey, perhaps a vulture.
13 tn Heb “are created” (so KJV, NASB, NIV, NRSV); NLT “They are brand new.”
14 tn Heb “look”; KJV, NASB “Behold.”
15 tn Heb “and I struck him, hiding, and I was angry.” פָּנַיִם (panayim, “face”) is the implied object of “hiding.”
16 tn Heb “and he walked [as an] apostate in the way of his heart.”
17 tn Heb “his ways” (so KJV, NASB, NIV); TEV “how they acted.”
18 tn Heb “and I will restore consolation to him, to his mourners.”
19 tn Heb “in faithfulness”; NASB, NRSV, NLT “faithfully.”
20 tn Heb “all who see them will recognize them, that they [are] descendants [whom] the Lord has blessed.”
21 tn Heb “Look, it is written before me.”
22 tn Heb “I will pay back into their lap.”
