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. ¹  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!” ² 

Isaiah 57:11

57:11 Whom are you worried about?

Whom do you fear, that you would act so deceitfully

and not remember me

or think about me? ³ 

Because I have been silent for so long, ⁴ 

you are not afraid of me. ⁵ 

¹ tn Heb “To your master and to you did my master send me to speak these words?” The rhetorical question expects a negative answer.

² tn Heb “[Is it] not [also] to the men…?” The rhetorical question expects the answer, “Yes, it is.”

³ tn Heb “you do not place [it] on your heart.”

⁴ tn Heb “Is it not [because] I have been silent, and from long ago?”

⁵ sn God’s patience with sinful Israel has caused them to think that they can sin with impunity and suffer no consequences.