Discovery BoxIsaiah 4:6 
Context4:6 By day it will be a shelter to provide shade from the heat,
as well as safety and protection from the heavy downpour. 1
Isaiah 7:6
Context7:6 They say, “Let’s attack Judah, terrorize it, and conquer it. 2 Then we’ll set up the son of Tabeel as its king.” 3
Isaiah 23:16
Context23:16 “Take the harp,
go through the city,
forgotten prostitute!
Play it well,
play lots of songs,
so you’ll be noticed!” 4
Isaiah 34:7
Context34:7 Wild oxen will be slaughtered 5 along with them,
as well as strong bulls. 6
Their land is drenched with blood,
their soil is covered with fat.
Isaiah 53:5
Context53:5 He was wounded because of 7 our rebellious deeds,
crushed because of our sins;
he endured punishment that made us well; 8
because of his wounds we have been healed. 9
1 tn Heb “a shelter it will be for shade by day from heat, and for a place of refuge and for a hiding place from cloudburst and rain.” Since both of the last nouns of this verse can mean rain, they can either refer to the rain storm and the rain as distinct items or together refer to a heavy downpour. Regardless, they do not represent unrelated phenomena.
2 tn Heb “and let us break it open for ourselves”; NASB “make for ourselves a breach in its walls”; NLT “fight our way into.”
3 tn Heb “and we will make the son of Tabeel king in its midst.”
sn The precise identity of this would-be puppet king is unknown. He may have been a Syrian official or the ruler of one of the small neighboring states. See Y. Aharoni, Land of the Bible, 370.
4 tn Heb “so you will be remembered.”
5 tn Heb “will go down”; NAB “shall be struck down.”
6 tn Heb “and bulls along with strong ones.” Perhaps this refers to the leaders.
7 tn The preposition מִן (min) has a causal sense (translated “because of”) here and in the following clause.
8 tn Heb “the punishment of our peace [was] on him.” שָׁלוֹם (shalom, “peace”) is here a genitive of result, i.e., “punishment that resulted in our peace.”
9 sn Continuing to utilize the imagery of physical illness, the group acknowledges that the servant’s willingness to carry their illnesses (v. 4) resulted in their being healed. Healing is a metaphor for forgiveness here.
