Discovery BoxIsaiah 8:21 
Context8:21 They will pass through the land 1 destitute and starving. Their hunger will make them angry, 2 and they will curse their king and their God 3 as they look upward.
Isaiah 9:5
Context9:5 Indeed every boot that marches and shakes the earth 4
and every garment dragged through blood
is used as fuel for the fire.
Isaiah 13:3
Context13:3 I have given orders to my chosen soldiers; 5
I have summoned the warriors through whom I will vent my anger, 6
my boasting, arrogant ones. 7
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!” 8
Isaiah 34:10
Context34:10 Night and day it will burn; 9
its smoke will ascend continually.
Generation after generation it will be a wasteland
and no one will ever pass through it again.
Isaiah 34:17
Context34:17 He assigns them their allotment; 10
he measures out their assigned place. 11
They will live there 12 permanently;
they will settle in it through successive generations.
Isaiah 38:10
Context‘In the middle of my life 14 I must walk through the gates of Sheol,
I am deprived 15 of the rest of my years.’
Isaiah 60:15
Context60:15 You were once abandoned
and despised, with no one passing through,
but I will make you 16 a permanent source of pride
and joy to coming generations.
1 tn Heb “he will pass through it.” The subject of the collective singular verb is the nation. (See the preceding note.) The immediately preceding context supplies no antecedent for “it” (a third feminine singular suffix in the Hebrew text); the suffix may refer to the land, which would be a reasonable referent with a verb of motion. Note also that אֶרֶץ (’erets, “land”) does appear at the beginning of the next verse.
2 tn The verb that introduces this verse serves as a discourse particle and is untranslated; see note on “in the future” in 2:2.
3 tn Or “gods” (NAB, NRSV, CEV).
4 tn Heb “Indeed every boot marching with shaking.” On the meaning of סְאוֹן (sÿ’on, “boot”) and the related denominative verb, both of which occur only here, see HALOT 738 s.v. סְאוֹן.
5 tn Heb “my consecrated ones,” i.e., those who have been set apart by God for the special task of carrying out his judgment.
6 tn Heb “my warriors with respect to my anger.”
7 tn Heb “the boasting ones of my pride”; cf. ASV, NASB, NRSV “my proudly exulting ones.”
8 tn Heb “so you will be remembered.”
9 tn Heb “it will not be extinguished.”
10 tn Heb “and he causes the lot to fall for them.” Once again the pronominal suffix (“them”) is feminine plural, referring to the birds mentioned in v. 15b or to all of the creatures listed in vv. 14b-15 (all of which are identified with feminine nouns).
11 tn Heb “and his hand divides for them with a measuring line.” The pronominal suffix (“them”) now switches to masculine plural, referring to all the animals and birds mentioned in vv. 11-15, some of which were identified with masculine nouns. This signals closure for this portion of the speech, which began in v. 11. The following couplet (v. 17b) forms an inclusio with v. 11a through verbal repetition.
12 tn Heb “will possess it” (so NIV); NCV “they will own that land forever.”
13 tn Or “I said” (KJV, NIV, NRSV, NLT).
14 tn The precise meaning of the phrase בִּדְמִי יָמַי (bidmi yamay, “in the [?] of my days”) is uncertain. According to HALOT 226 s.v. דְּמִי this word is a hapax legomenon meaning “half.” Others derive the form from דַּמִי (dami, “quiet, rest, peacefulness”).
15 tn The precise meaning of the verb is uncertain. The Pual of of פָּקַד (paqad) occurs only here and in Exod 38:21, where it appears to mean “passed in review” or “mustered.” Perhaps the idea is, “I have been called away for the remainder of my years.” To bring out the sense more clearly, one can translate, “I am deprived of the rest of my years.”
16 tn Heb “Instead of your being abandoned and despised, with no one passing through, I will make you.”
