Isaiah 13:18

13:18 Their arrows will cut young men to ribbons;

they have no compassion on a person’s offspring,

they will not look with pity on children.

Isaiah 46:3

46:3 “Listen to me, O family of Jacob,

all you who are left from the family of Israel,

you who have been carried from birth,

you who have been supported from the time you left the womb.


tn Heb “and bows cut to bits young men.” “Bows” stands by metonymy for arrows.

tn Heb “the fruit of the womb.”

tn Heb “their eye does not.” Here “eye” is a metonymy for the whole person.

tn Heb “house of Jacob”; TEV “descendants of Jacob.”

tn Heb “and all the remnant of the house of Israel.”

tn Heb “from the womb” (so NRSV); KJV “from the belly”; NAB “from your infancy.”

tn Heb “who have been lifted up from the womb.”