¹ tn Heb “Hear the words of Sennacherib which he sent to taunt the living God.”

² tn Heb “and rebuke the words which the Lord your God hears.”

¹ tn Heb “a hearing heart.” (The Hebrew term translated “heart” often refers to the mental faculties.)

¹ tn Or perhaps “settled disputes for” (cf. NLT “would hear cases there”; NRSV “administered justice there”).

¹ tn The word “Hear” is supplied in the translation for clarification and for stylistic reasons.

² tn Heb “did not hear your voice and did not turn an ear to you.”

² tn The cohortative may be subordinated to the imperative: “stand…[that I] may hear.”

² tn The word properly refers to “pangs” of childbirth. When the nations hear, they will be terrified.

² tn Heb “they will not hear, a man the lip of his neighbor.”

² sn To “incline the ear” means to “listen carefully” (cf. NCV); the expression is metonymical in that the ear is the instrument for hearing. It is like telling someone to lean over to hear better.

³ sn The name Ishmael consists of the imperfect or jussive form of the Hebrew verb with the theophoric element added as the subject. It means “God hears” or “may God hear.”

¹ tn Grk “that I hear”; the ἵνα (hina) clause indicates content. This is more smoothly expressed as an English infinitive.

¹ tn The Greek present participle ἀκούων (akouōn, “hearing”) is an adverbial participle of cause relating to εὐχαριστῶ (eucharistō, “I give thanks”).

⁵ tn BDAG 440 s.v. ἡσυχία 2 has “παρέχειν ἡσυχίαν quiet down, give a hearing…Ac 22:2.”

³ tn Heb “not a hunger for food or a thirst for water, but for hearing the words of the Lord.”

¹ tn The verb could be understood as a precative (“Hear my plea”) parallel to the following volitive verb, “do not close.”

¹ tn Heb “they have eyes but they do not see; they have ears but they do not hear.”

¹ tn Heb “and your sins have caused [his] face to be hidden from you so as not to hear.”

³ sn The prophet seems to contradict what he hears the group saying. Their words are premature because more destruction is coming.

¹ tn The verb is simply “stand,” but in the more general sense of waiting to hear the answer.