¹ tn Or “disputing,” “conducting a heated discussion.”

² tn Heb “the heat of his anger.”

³ tn Heb “hot fever”; NIV “scorching heat.”

¹ tn Heb “because of the burning heat of famine.”

³ tn Heb “[like] heat in the shadow of a cloud.”

³ tn On this phrase BDAG 536 s.v. καῦμα states, “burning, heat Rv 7:16…καυματίζεσθαι κ. μέγα be burned with a scorching heat 16:9.”

³ tn The word חֹרֶב (khorev) also means “heat.” The heat in this line is not that of the sun, but obviously a fever.

² tn Or “that has been heated in a furnace until it glows.”

¹ sn The south wind comes from the desert, and thus brings scorching heat.

² tn Heb “like the glowing heat because of light.” The precise meaning of the line is uncertain.

¹ tn Heb “this great burning of anger”; KJV “the heat of this great anger.”

¹ tn Heb “and at every breeding-heat of the flock, the strong females.”

¹ tn An allusion to Isa 49:10. The phrase “burning heat” is one word in Greek (καῦμα, kauma) that refers to a burning, intensely-felt heat. See BDAG 536 s.v.

¹ tn The word “kindles” was supplied in the translation; both “rage” and “jealousy” have meanings connected to heat.

¹ tn Heb “and the heat and the sun will not strike them.” In Isa 35:7, its only other occurrence in the OT, שָׁרָב (sharav) stands parallel to “parched ground” and in contrast to “pool.” In later Hebrew and Aramaic it refers to “dry heat, heat of the sun” (Jastrow 1627 s.v.). Here it likely has this nuance and forms a hendiadys with “sun.”

⁴ sn The oven was most likely a rounded clay oven used for baking bread, which was heated by burning wood and dried grass.

⁴ sn The rebuke “Who warned you to flee…?” compares the crowd to snakes who flee their desert holes when the heat of a fire drives them out.

² sn The oven was most likely a rounded clay oven used for baking bread, which was heated by burning wood and dried grass.

⁴ sn Jerusalem is also compared to a pot in Ezek 24:3-8. The siege of the city is pictured as heating up the pot.

² tn Heb “frost, ice,” though when contrasted with the חֹרֶב (khorev, “drought, parching heat”) of the day, “piercing cold” is more appropriate as a contrast.