10:29 They went through the pass,
spent the night at Geba.
Ramah trembled,
Gibeah of Saul ran away.
24:5 The earth is defiled by 1 its inhabitants, 2
for they have violated laws,
disregarded the regulation, 3
and broken the permanent treaty. 4
29:5 But the horde of invaders will be like fine dust,
the horde of tyrants 5 like chaff that is blown away.
It will happen suddenly, in a flash.
33:8 Highways are empty, 6
there are no travelers. 7
Treaties are broken, 8
witnesses are despised, 9
human life is treated with disrespect. 10
40:27 Why do you say, Jacob,
Why do you say, Israel,
“The Lord is not aware of what is happening to me, 11
My God is not concerned with my vindication”? 12
47:2 Pick up millstones and grind flour!
Remove your veil,
strip off your skirt,
expose your legs,
cross the streams!
60:15 You were once abandoned
and despised, with no one passing through,
but I will make you 13 a permanent source of pride
and joy to coming generations.
1 tn Heb “beneath”; cf. KJV, ASV, NRSV “under”; NAB “because of.”
2 sn Isa 26:21 suggests that the earth’s inhabitants defiled the earth by shedding the blood of their fellow human beings. See also Num 35:33-34, which assumes that bloodshed defiles a land.
3 tn Heb “moved past [the?] regulation.”
4 tn Or “everlasting covenant” (KJV, NASB, NIV, NRSV, NLT); NAB “the ancient covenant”; CEV “their agreement that was to last forever.”
1 tn Or “violent men”; cf. NASB “the ruthless ones.”
1 tn Or “desolate” (NAB, NASB); NIV, NRSV, NLT “deserted.”
2 tn Heb “the one passing by on the road ceases.”
3 tn Heb “one breaks a treaty”; NAB “Covenants are broken.”
4 tc The Hebrew text reads literally, “he despises cities.” The term עָרִים (’arim, “cities”) is probably a corruption of an original עֵדִים (’edim, “[legal] witnesses”), a reading that is preserved in the Qumran scroll 1QIsaa. Confusion of dalet (ד) and resh (ר) is a well-attested scribal error.
5 tn Heb “he does not regard human beings.”
1 tn Heb “my way is hidden from the Lord” (so NAB, NASB, NIV, NRSV).
2 tn Heb “and from my God my justice passes away”; NRSV “my right is disregarded by my God.”
1 tn Heb “Instead of your being abandoned and despised, with no one passing through, I will make you.”