Isaiah 30:7
Context| NETBible | Egypt is totally incapable of helping. 1 For this reason I call her ‘Proud one 2 who is silenced.’” 3 |
| XREF | Ex 14:13; Ps 76:8,9; Ps 118:8,9; Isa 2:22; Isa 7:4; Isa 28:12; Isa 30:15; Isa 31:1-5; Jer 37:7; La 3:26; Ho 5:13 |
| NET © Notes |
1 tn Heb “As for Egypt, with vanity and emptiness they help.” 2 tn Heb “Rahab” (רַהַב, rahav), which also appears as a name for Egypt in Ps 87:4. The epithet is also used in the OT for a mythical sea monster symbolic of chaos. See the note at 51:9. A number of English versions use the name “Rahab” (e.g., ASV, NAB, NASB, NIV, NRSV) while others attempt some sort of translation (cf. CEV “a helpless monster”; TEV, NLT “the Harmless Dragon”). 3 tn The MT reads “Rahab, they, sitting.” The translation above assumes an emendation of הֵם שָׁבֶת (hem shavet) to הַמָּשְׁבָּת (hammashbat), a Hophal participle with prefixed definite article, meaning “the one who is made to cease,” i.e., “destroyed,” or “silenced.” See HALOT 444-45 s.v. ישׁב. |
