Isaiah 36:20

36:20 Who among all the gods of these lands have rescued their lands from my power? So how can the Lord rescue Jerusalem from my power?’” ¹ 

Isaiah 7:4

7:4 Tell him, ‘Make sure you stay calm! ²  Don’t be afraid! Don’t be intimidated ³  by these two stubs of smoking logs, ⁴  or by the raging anger of Rezin, Syria, and the son of Remaliah.

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. ⁵  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!” ⁶ 

Isaiah 39:3

39:3 Isaiah the prophet visited King Hezekiah and asked him, “What did these men say? Where do they come from?” Hezekiah replied, “They come from the distant land of Babylon.”

¹ tn Heb “that the Lord might rescue Jerusalem from my hand?” The logic runs as follows: Since no god has ever been able to withstand the Assyrian onslaught, how can the people of Jerusalem possibly think the Lord will rescue them?

² tn Heb “guard yourself and be quiet,” but the two verbs should be coordinated.

³ tn Heb “and let not your heart be weak”; ASV “neither let thy heart be faint.”

⁴ sn The derogatory metaphor indicates that the power of Rezin and Pekah is ready to die out.

³ tn Heb “To your master and to you did my master send me to speak these words?” The rhetorical question expects a negative answer.

⁴ tn Heb “[Is it] not [also] to the men…?” The rhetorical question expects the answer, “Yes, it is.”