Text -- Isaiah 17:13-14 (NET)

17:13 Though these people make an uproar as loud as the roaring of powerful waves, when he shouts at them, they will flee to a distant land, driven before the wind like dead weeds on the hills, or like dead thistles before a strong gale. 17:14 In the evening there is sudden terror; by morning they vanish. This is the fate of those who try to plunder us, the destiny of those who try to loot us!

Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Isa 17:13

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

² tn Or “rebukes.” The verb and related noun are used in theophanies of God’s battle cry which terrifies his enemies. See, for example, Pss 18:15; 76:7; 106:9; Isa 50:2; Nah 1:4, and A. Caquot, TDOT 3:49-53.

³ tn Or perhaps “tumbleweed” (NAB, NIV, CEV); KJV “like a rolling thing.”

NET Notes: Isa 17:14

¹ tn Heb “at the time of evening, look, sudden terror.”

² tn Heb “before morning he is not.”

³ tn Heb “this is the portion of those who plunder us, and the lot of those who loot us.”