³ tn Grk “proceeding.” Water is more naturally thought to pour out or flow out in English idiom.

⁶ tn Grk “and many of the men died from these waters because they were bitter.”

³ tn The phrase “some water” is supplied as the understood direct object of the infinitive πεῖν (pein).

² tn The phrase “some water” is supplied as the understood direct object of the infinitive πεῖν (pein).

² tn “Water” is supplied as the understood direct object of the infinitive πεῖν (pein).

⁶ tn Or “fleeing away”; or (maintaining the imagery of the pool of water) “draining away.”

² tn Heb “them,” that is, the waters mentioned in the previous line. The translation clarifies the referent.

¹ tn Heb “and they will not stand to them in their height, all the drinkers of water.”

³ tn Or “Do not ever put them in water,” i.e., “Do not even wash them.”

⁵ tn Heb “the fish stink from lack of water and die from thirst.”

² tn Heb “and the Master will give to you bread—distress, and water—oppression.”

² tn Or “that he is faint and that he [or “his appetite”] longs [for water].”

⁴ tn Heb “like the uproar of mighty waters they are in an uproar.”

¹ tn Heb “the peoples are in an uproar like the uproar of mighty waters.”

² sn The phrase “waters of Shiloah” probably refers to a stream that originated at the Gihon Spring and supplied the city of Jerusalem with water. See J. N. Oswalt, Isaiah (NICOT), 1:225. In this context these waters stand in contrast to the flood waters of Assyria and symbolize God’s presence and blessings.

⁴ tn Heb “all the support of food, and all the support of water.”

² sn This verse does not refer to the cycle of evaporation or the return of water by underground streams, as sometimes suggested. Rather, it describes the constant flow of river waters to the sea. For all the action of the water—endless repetition and water constantly in motion—there is nothing new accomplished.

¹ tn Heb “then they would have passed over our being, the raging waters.”

⁴ sn The surging water is here a metaphor for trouble that endangers one’s life.

³ tn The perfect verb forms an abbreviated relative clause (without the pronoun) modifying “water.”