Discovery BoxIsaiah 8:4 
Context8:4 for before the child knows how to cry out, ‘My father’ or ‘My mother,’ the wealth of Damascus and the plunder of Samaria 1 will be carried off by the king of Assyria.” 2
Isaiah 37:3
Context37:3 “This is what Hezekiah says: 3 ‘This is a day of distress, insults, 4 and humiliation, 5 as when a baby is ready to leave the birth canal, but the mother lacks the strength to push it through. 6
Isaiah 49:1
Context49:1 Listen to me, you coastlands! 7
Pay attention, you people who live far away!
The Lord summoned me from birth; 8
he commissioned me when my mother brought me into the world. 9
1 map For location see Map2 B1; Map4 D3; Map5 E2; Map6 A4; Map7 C1.
2 sn The child’s name foreshadows what will happen to Judah’s enemies; when their defeat takes place, the child will be a reminder that God predicted the event and brought it to pass. As such the child will be a reminder of God’s protective presence with his people.
3 tn In the Hebrew text this verse begins with “they said to him” (cf. NRSV).
4 tn Or “rebuke” (KJV, NAB, NIV, NRSV), or “correction.”
5 tn Or “contempt”; NAB, NIV, NRSV “disgrace.”
6 tn Heb “when sons come to the cervical opening and there is no strength to give birth.”
7 tn Or “islands” (NASB, NIV); NLT “in far-off lands.”
sn The Lord’s special servant, introduced in chap. 42, speaks here of his commission.
8 tn Heb “called me from the womb.”
9 tn Heb “from the inner parts of my mother he mentioned my name.”
