Isaiah 22:8

22:8 They removed the defenses of Judah.

At that time you looked

for the weapons in the House of the Forest.

Isaiah 19:14

19:14 The Lord has made them undiscerning;

they lead Egypt astray in all she does,

so that she is like a drunk sliding around in his own vomit.


tn Heb “he,” i.e., the enemy invader. NASB, by its capitalization of the pronoun, takes this to refer to the Lord.

tn Heb “covering.”

tn Heb “in that day” (so KJV), likewise at the beginning of v. 12.

sn Perhaps this refers to a royal armory, or to Solomon’s “House of the Forest of Lebanon,” where weapons may have been kept (see 1 Kgs 10:16-17).

tn Heb “the Lord has mixed into her midst a spirit of blindness.”

tn Heb “like the going astray of a drunkard in his vomit.”