(0.42) | (Isa 55:3) | 1 sn To live here refers to covenantal blessing, primarily material prosperity and national security (see vv. 4-5, 13, and Deut 30:6, 15, 19-20). |
(0.42) | (Isa 53:4) | 1 sn Illness and pain stand by metonymy (or perhaps as metaphors) for sin and its effects, as vv. 11-12 make clear. |
(0.42) | (Isa 51:9) | 1 tn The arm of the Lord is a symbol of divine military power. Here it is personified and told to arouse itself from sleep and prepare for action. |
(0.42) | (Isa 47:9) | 4 sn Reference is made to incantations and amulets, both of which were important in Mesopotamian religion. They were used to ward off danger and demons. |
(0.42) | (Isa 44:3) | 2 tn Heb “and streams”; KJV “floods.” The verb “cause…to flow” is supplied in the second line for clarity and for stylistic reasons. |
(0.42) | (Isa 42:6) | 4 sn Light here symbolizes deliverance from bondage and oppression; note the parallelism in 49:6b and in 51:4-6. |
(0.42) | (Isa 38:8) | 1 sn These steps probably functioned as a type of sundial. See HALOT 614 s.v. מַעֲלָה and M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 256. |
(0.42) | (Isa 38:3) | 1 tn Heb “walked before you.” For a helpful discussion of the background and meaning of this Hebrew idiom, see M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 254. |
(0.42) | (Isa 37:30) | 1 tn At this point the word concerning the king of Assyria (vv. 22-29) ends, and the Lord again addresses Hezekiah and the people directly (see v. 21). |
(0.42) | (Isa 37:8) | 1 tn Heb “and the chief adviser returned and he found the king of Assyria fighting against Libnah, for he heard that he had departed from Lachish.” |
(0.42) | (Isa 35:2) | 2 tn Heb “and let it rejoice, yes [with] rejoicing and shouting.” גִּילַת (gilat) may be an archaic feminine nominal form (see GKC 421 §130.b). |
(0.42) | (Isa 23:17) | 3 tn Heb “and she will return to her [prostitute’s] wages and engage in prostitution with all the kingdoms of the earth on the face of the earth.” |
(0.42) | (Isa 22:5) | 2 tn Heb “For [there is] a day of panic, and trampling, and confusion for the master, the Lord of Heaven’s Armies [traditionally, “the Lord of hosts”].” |
(0.42) | (Isa 20:1) | 1 tn Heb “In the year the commanding general came to Ashdod, when Sargon king of Assyria sent him, and he fought against Ashdod and captured it.” |
(0.42) | (Isa 16:14) | 2 tn Heb “and the splendor of Moab will be disgraced with all the great multitude, and a small little remnant will not be strong.” |
(0.42) | (Isa 16:5) | 1 tn Heb “and a throne will be established in faithfulness, and he will sit on it in reliability, in the tent of David.” |
(0.42) | (Isa 14:2) | 1 tn Heb “and the house of Israel will take possession of them [i.e., the nations], on the land of the Lord, as male servants and female servants.” |
(0.42) | (Isa 9:21) | 2 tn Heb “in all this his anger is not turned, and still his hand is outstretched” (KJV and ASV both similar); NIV “his hand is still upraised.” |
(0.42) | (Isa 7:25) | 1 tn Heb “and all the hills which were hoed with a hoe, you will not go there [for] fear of the thorns and briers.” |
(0.42) | (Isa 5:27) | 1 tn Heb “and the belt on his waist is not opened, and the thong of his sandals is not torn in two.” |