14:11 Your splendor 1 has been brought down to Sheol,
as well as the sound of your stringed instruments. 2
You lie on a bed of maggots,
with a blanket of worms over you. 3
24:5 The earth is defiled by 4 its inhabitants, 5
for they have violated laws,
disregarded the regulation, 6
and broken the permanent treaty. 7
60:15 You were once abandoned
and despised, with no one passing through,
but I will make you 8 a permanent source of pride
and joy to coming generations.
1 tn Or “pride” (NCV, CEV); KJV, NIV, NRSV “pomp.”
2 tn Or “harps” (NAB, NIV, NRSV).
3 tn Heb “under you maggots are spread out, and worms are your cover.”
4 tn Heb “beneath”; cf. KJV, ASV, NRSV “under”; NAB “because of.”
5 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.
6 tn Heb “moved past [the?] regulation.”
7 tn Or “everlasting covenant” (KJV, NASB, NIV, NRSV, NLT); NAB “the ancient covenant”; CEV “their agreement that was to last forever.”
7 tn Heb “Instead of your being abandoned and despised, with no one passing through, I will make you.”