Discovery BoxIsaiah 47:12 
Context47:12 Persist 1 in trusting 2 your amulets
and your many incantations,
which you have faithfully recited 3 since your youth!
Maybe you will be successful 4 –
maybe you will scare away disaster. 5
Isaiah 51:17
Context51:17 Wake up! Wake up!
Get up, O Jerusalem!
You drank from the cup the Lord passed to you,
which was full of his anger! 6
You drained dry
the goblet full of intoxicating wine. 7
1 tn Heb “stand” (so KJV, ASV); NASB, NRSV “Stand fast.”
2 tn The word “trusting” is supplied in the translation for clarification. See v. 9.
3 tn Heb “in that which you have toiled.”
4 tn Heb “maybe you will be able to profit.”
5 tn Heb “maybe you will cause to tremble.” The object “disaster” is supplied in the translation for clarification. See the note at v. 9.
6 tn Heb “[you] who have drunk from the hand of the Lord the cup of his anger.”
7 tn Heb “the goblet, the cup [that causes] staggering, you drank, you drained.”
