Isaiah 3:14

3:14 The Lord comes to pronounce judgment

on the leaders of his people and their officials.

He says, ¹  “It is you ²  who have ruined ³  the vineyard! ⁴ 

You have stashed in your houses what you have stolen from the poor. ⁵ 

Isaiah 37:10

37:10 “Tell King Hezekiah of Judah this: ‘Don’t let your God in whom you trust mislead you when he says, “Jerusalem will not be handed over to the king of Assyria.”

Isaiah 37:38

37:38 One day, ⁶  as he was worshiping ⁷  in the temple of his god Nisroch, ⁸  his sons Adrammelech and Sharezer struck him down with the sword. ⁹  They ran away to the land of Ararat; his son Esarhaddon replaced him as king.

¹ tn The words “he says” are supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons.

² tn The pronominal element is masculine plural; the leaders are addressed.

³ tn The verb בָּעַר (ba’ar, “graze, ruin”; HALOT 146 s.v. II בער) is a homonym of the more common בָּעַר (ba’ar, “burn”; see HALOT 145 s.v. I בער).

⁴ sn The vineyard is a metaphor for the nation here. See 5:1-7.

⁵ tn Heb “the plunder of the poor [is] in your houses” (so NASB).

⁶ sn The assassination of King Sennacherib probably took place in 681 b.c.

⁷ tn The verb that introduces this verse serves as a discourse particle and is untranslated; see note on “in the future” in 2:2.

⁸ sn No such Mesopotamian god is presently known. Perhaps the name Nisroch is a corruption of Nusku.

⁹ sn Extra-biblical sources also mention the assassination of Sennacherib, though they refer to only one assassin. See M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 239-40.