Discovery BoxIsaiah 37:29 
Context37:29 Because you rage against me
and the uproar you create has reached my ears, 1
I will put my hook in your nose, 2
and my bridle between your lips,
and I will lead you back
the way you came.”
Isaiah 17:13
Context17:13 Though these people make an uproar as loud as the roaring of powerful waves, 3
when he shouts at 4 them, they will flee to a distant land,
driven before the wind like dead weeds on the hills,
or like dead thistles 5 before a strong gale.
1 tc Heb “and your complacency comes up into my ears.” The parallelism is improved if שַׁאֲנַנְךָ (sha’anankha, “your complacency”) is emended to שְׁאוֹנְךָ (shÿ’onÿkha, “your uproar”). See M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 237-38. However, the LXX seems to support the MT and Sennacherib’s cavalier dismissal of Yahweh depicts an arrogant complacency (J. N. Oswalt, Isaiah [NICOT], 1:658, n. 10).
2 sn The word-picture has a parallel in Assyrian sculpture. See M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 238.
3 tn Heb “the peoples are in an uproar like the uproar of mighty waters.”
4 tn Or “rebukes.” The verb and related noun are used in theophanies of God’s battle cry which terrifies his enemies. See, for example, Pss 18:15; 76:7; 106:9; Isa 50:2; Nah 1:4, and A. Caquot, TDOT 3:49-53.
5 tn Or perhaps “tumbleweed” (NAB, NIV, CEV); KJV “like a rolling thing.”
