Isaiah 36:12

36:12 But the chief adviser said, “My master did not send me to speak these words only to your master and to you. His message is also for the men who sit on the wall, for they will eat their own excrement and drink their own urine along with you!”

Isaiah 37:6

37:6 Isaiah said to them, “Tell your master this: ‘This is what the Lord says: “Don’t be afraid because of the things you have heard – these insults the king of Assyria’s servants have hurled against me.

Isaiah 42:16

42:16 I will lead the blind along an unfamiliar way;

I will guide them down paths they have never traveled.

I will turn the darkness in front of them into light,

and level out the rough ground.

This is what I will do for them.

I will not abandon them.


tn Heb “To your master and to you did my master send me to speak these words?” The rhetorical question expects a negative answer.

tn Heb “[Is it] not [also] to the men…?” The rhetorical question expects the answer, “Yes, it is.”

tn Heb “by which the servants of the king of Assyria have insulted me.”

tn Heb “a way they do not know” (so NASB); NRSV “a road they do not know.”

tn Heb “in paths they do not know I will make them walk.”

tn Heb “and the rough ground into a level place.”