Discovery BoxIsaiah 7:7 
Context7:7 For this reason the sovereign master, 1 the Lord, says:
“It will not take place;
it will not happen.
Isaiah 15:7
Context15:7 For this reason what they have made and stored up,
they carry over the Stream of the Poplars.
Isaiah 30:7
Context30:7 Egypt is totally incapable of helping. 2
For this reason I call her
1 tn The Hebrew term translated “sovereign master” here and in vv. 14, 19 is אֲדֹנָי (’adonay).
2 tn Heb “As for Egypt, with vanity and emptiness they help.”
3 tn Heb “Rahab” (רַהַב, rahav), which also appears as a name for Egypt in Ps 87:4. The epithet is also used in the OT for a mythical sea monster symbolic of chaos. See the note at 51:9. A number of English versions use the name “Rahab” (e.g., ASV, NAB, NASB, NIV, NRSV) while others attempt some sort of translation (cf. CEV “a helpless monster”; TEV, NLT “the Harmless Dragon”).
4 tn The MT reads “Rahab, they, sitting.” The translation above assumes an emendation of הֵם שָׁבֶת (hem shavet) to הַמָּשְׁבָּת (hammashbat), a Hophal participle with prefixed definite article, meaning “the one who is made to cease,” i.e., “destroyed,” or “silenced.” See HALOT 444-45 s.v. ישׁב.
