Discovery BoxIsaiah 5:30 
Context5:30 At that time 1 they will growl over their prey, 2
it will sound like sea waves crashing against rocks. 3
One will look out over the land and see the darkness of disaster,
clouds will turn the light into darkness. 4
Isaiah 14:31
Context14:31 Wail, O city gate!
Cry out, O city!
Melt with fear, 5 all you Philistines!
For out of the north comes a cloud of smoke,
and there are no stragglers in its ranks. 6
Isaiah 15:2
Context15:2 They went up to the temple, 7
the people of Dibon went up to the high places to lament. 8
Because of what happened to Nebo and Medeba, 9 Moab wails.
Every head is shaved bare,
every beard is trimmed off. 10
Isaiah 41:23
Context41:23 Predict how future events will turn out, 11
so we might know you are gods.
Yes, do something good or bad,
so we might be frightened and in awe. 12
Isaiah 45:11
Context45:11 This is what the Lord says,
the Holy One of Israel, 13 the one who formed him,
concerning things to come: 14
“How dare you question me 15 about my children!
How dare you tell me what to do with 16 the work of my own hands!
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! 17
You drained dry
the goblet full of intoxicating wine. 18
Isaiah 57:11
Context57:11 Whom are you worried about?
Whom do you fear, that you would act so deceitfully
and not remember me
or think about me? 19
Because I have been silent for so long, 20
you are not afraid of me. 21
Isaiah 58:14
Context58:14 Then you will find joy in your relationship to the Lord, 22
and I will give you great prosperity, 23
and cause crops to grow on the land I gave to your ancestor Jacob.” 24
Know for certain that the Lord has spoken. 25
1 tn Or “in that day” (KJV).
2 tn Heb “over it”; the referent (the prey) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
3 tn Heb “like the growling of the sea.”
4 tn Heb “and one will gaze toward the land, and look, darkness of distress, and light will grow dark by its [the land’s?] clouds.”
sn The motif of light turning to darkness is ironic when compared to v. 20. There the sinners turn light (= moral/ethical good) to darkness (= moral/ethical evil). Now ironically the Lord will turn light (= the sinners’ sphere of existence and life) into darkness (= the judgment and death).
5 tn Or “despair” (see HALOT 555 s.v. מוג). The form נָמוֹג (namog) should be taken here as an infinitive absolute functioning as an imperative. See GKC 199-200 §72.v.
6 tn Heb “and there is no one going alone in his appointed places.” The meaning of this line is uncertain. בּוֹדֵד (boded) appears to be a participle from בָּדַד (badad, “be separate”; see BDB 94 s.v. בָּדַד). מוֹעָד (mo’ad) may mean “assembly” or, by extension, “multitude” (see HALOT 558 s.v. *מוֹעָד), but the referent of the third masculine pronominal suffix attached to the noun is unclear. It probably refers to the “nation” mentioned in the next line.
7 tn Heb “house.”
8 tn Heb “even Dibon [to] the high places to weep.” The verb “went up” does double duty in the parallel structure.
9 tn Heb “over [or “for”] Nebo and over [or “for”] Medeba.”
10 sn Shaving the head and beard were outward signs of mourning and grief.
11 tn Heb “Declare the coming things, with respect to the end.”
12 tc The translation assumes the Qere (וְנִרְאֶה [vÿnir’eh], from יָרֵא [yare’], “be afraid”).
tn Heb “so we might be frightened and afraid together.” On the meaning of the verb שָׁתָע (shata’), see the note at v. 10.
13 sn See the note on the phrase “the Holy One of Israel” in 1:4.
14 tc The Hebrew text reads “the one who formed him, the coming things.” Among various suggestions, some have proposed an emendation of יֹצְרוֹ (yotsÿro, “the one who formed him”) to יֹצֵר (yotser, “the one who forms”; the suffixed form in the Hebrew text may be influenced by vv. 9-10, where the same form appears twice) and takes “coming things” as the object of the participle (either objective genitive or accusative): “the one who brings the future into being.”
15 tn Heb “Ask me” The rhetorical command sarcastically expresses the Lord’s disgust with those who question his ways.
16 tn Heb “Do you command me about…?” The rhetorical question sarcastically expresses the Lord’s disgust with those who question his ways.
17 tn Heb “[you] who have drunk from the hand of the Lord the cup of his anger.”
18 tn Heb “the goblet, the cup [that causes] staggering, you drank, you drained.”
19 tn Heb “you do not place [it] on your heart.”
20 tn Heb “Is it not [because] I have been silent, and from long ago?”
21 sn God’s patience with sinful Israel has caused them to think that they can sin with impunity and suffer no consequences.
22 tn For a parallel use of the phrase “find joy in” (Hitpael of עָנַג [’anag] followed by the preposition עַל [’al]), see Ps 37:4.
23 tn Heb “and I will cause you to ride upon the heights of the land.” The statement seems to be an allusion to Deut 32:13, where it is associated, as here, with God’s abundant provision of food.
24 tn Heb “and I will cause you to eat the inheritance of Jacob your father.” The Hebrew term נַחֲלָה (nakhalah) likely stands by metonymy for the crops that grow on Jacob’s “inheritance” (i.e., the land he inherited as a result of God’s promise).
25 tn Heb “for the mouth of the Lord has spoken.” The introductory כִּי (ki) may be asseverative (as reflected in the translation) or causal/explanatory, explaining why the preceding promise will become reality (because it is guaranteed by the divine word).
