Discovery BoxIsaiah 54:2 
Context54:2 Make your tent larger,
stretch your tent curtains farther out! 1
Spare no effort,
lengthen your ropes,
and pound your stakes deep. 2
Isaiah 64:7
Context64:7 No one invokes 3 your name,
or makes an effort 4 to take hold of you.
For you have rejected us 5
and handed us over to our own sins. 6
1 tn Heb “the curtains of our dwelling places let them stretch out.”
2 tn Heb “your stakes strengthen.”
3 tn Or “calls out in”; NASB, NIV, NRSV “calls on.”
4 tn Or “rouses himself”; NASB “arouses himself.”
5 tn Heb “for you have hidden your face from us.”
6 tc The Hebrew text reads literally, “and you caused us to melt in the hand of our sin.” The verb וַתְּמוּגֵנוּ (vattÿmugenu) is a Qal preterite 2nd person masculine singular with a 1st person common plural suffix from the root מוּג (mug, “melt”). However, elsewhere the Qal of this verb is intransitive. If the verbal root מוּג (mug) is retained here, the form should be emended to a Polel pattern (וַתְּמֹגְגֵנוּ, vattÿmogÿgenu). The translation assumes an emendation to וַתְּמַגְּנֵנוּ (vattÿmaggÿnenu, “and you handed us over”). This form is a Piel preterite 2nd person masculine singular with a 1st person common plural suffix from the verbal root מִגֵּן (miggen, “hand over, surrender”; see HALOT 545 s.v. מגן and BDB 171 s.v. מָגָן). The point is that God has abandoned them to their sinful ways and no longer seeks reconciliation.
