Discovery BoxIsaiah 30:6 
Context30:6 This is a message 1 about the animals in the Negev:
Through a land of distress and danger,
inhabited by lionesses and roaring lions, 2
by snakes and darting adders, 3
they transport 4 their wealth on the backs of donkeys,
their riches on the humps of camels,
to a nation that cannot help them. 5
Isaiah 33:1
Context33:1 The destroyer is as good as dead, 6
you who have not been destroyed!
The deceitful one is as good as dead, 7
the one whom others have not deceived!
When you are through destroying, you will be destroyed;
when you finish 8 deceiving, others will deceive you!
Isaiah 37:24
Context37:24 Through your messengers you taunted the sovereign master, 9
‘With my many chariots I climbed up
the high mountains,
the slopes of Lebanon.
I cut down its tall cedars
and its best evergreens.
I invaded its most remote regions, 10
its thickest woods.
Isaiah 44:23
Context44:23 Shout for joy, O sky, for the Lord intervenes; 11
shout out, you subterranean regions 12 of the earth.
O mountains, give a joyful shout;
you too, O forest and all your trees! 13
For the Lord protects 14 Jacob;
he reveals his splendor through Israel. 15
1 tn Traditionally, “burden” (so KJV, ASV); NAB, NASB, NIV, NRSV “oracle.”
2 tc Heb “[a land of] a lioness and a lion, from them.” Some emend מֵהֶם (mehem, “from them”) to מֵהֵם (mehem), an otherwise unattested Hiphil participle from הָמַם (hamam, “move noisily”). Perhaps it would be better to take the initial mem (מ) as enclitic and emend the form to הֹמֶה (homeh), a Qal active participle from הָמָה (hamah, “to make a noise”); cf. J. N. Oswalt, Isaiah (NICOT), 1:542, n. 9.
3 tn Heb “flying fiery one.” See the note at 14:29.
4 tn Or “carry” (KJV, NAB, NASB, NIV, NRSV).
5 sn This verse describes messengers from Judah transporting wealth to Egypt in order to buy Pharaoh’s protection through a treaty.
6 tn Heb “Woe [to] the destroyer.”
sn In this context “the destroyer” appears to refer collectively to the hostile nations (vv. 3-4). Assyria would probably have been primary in the minds of the prophet and his audience.
7 tn Heb “and the deceitful one”; NAB, NIV “O traitor”; NRSV “you treacherous one.” In the parallel structure הוֹי (hoy, “woe [to]”) does double duty.
8 tc The form in the Hebrew text appears to derive from an otherwise unattested verb נָלָה (nalah). The translation follows the Qumran scroll 1QIsaa in reading ככלתך, a Piel infinitival form from the verbal root כָּלָה (kalah), meaning “finish.”
9 tn The Hebrew term translated “sovereign master” here is אֲדֹנָי (’adonay).
10 tn Heb “the height of its extremity”; ASV “its farthest height.”
11 tn Heb “acts”; NASB, NRSV “has done it”; NLT “has done this wondrous thing.”
12 tn Heb “lower regions.” This refers to Sheol and forms a merism with “sky” in the previous line. See Pss 63:9; 71:20.
13 tn Heb “O forest and all the trees in it”; NASB, NRSV “and every tree in it.”
14 tn Heb “redeems.” See the note at 41:14.
15 tn That is, by delivering Israel. Cf. NCV “showed his glory when he saved Israel”; TEV “has shown his greatness by saving his people Israel.”
