38:1 In those days Hezekiah was stricken with a terminal illness. 1 The prophet Isaiah son of Amoz visited him and told him, “This is what the Lord says, ‘Give instructions to your household, for you are about to die; you will not get well.’”
66:8 Who has ever heard of such a thing?
Who has ever seen this?
Can a country 2 be brought forth in one day?
Can a nation be born in a single moment?
Yet as soon as Zion goes into labor she gives birth to sons!
1 tn Heb “was sick to the point of dying”; NRSV “became sick and was at the point of death.”
2 tn Heb “land,” but here אֶרֶץ (’erets) stands metonymically for an organized nation (see the following line).