Job 9:13

9:13 God does not restrain his anger; ¹ 

under him the helpers of Rahab ²  lie crushed. ³ 

Isaiah 20:6

20:6 At that time ⁴  those who live on this coast ⁵  will say, ‘Look what has happened to our source of hope to whom we fled for help, expecting to be rescued from the king of Assyria! How can we escape now?’”

Isaiah 31:8

31:8 Assyria will fall by a sword, but not one human-made; ⁶ 

a sword not made by humankind will destroy them. ⁷ 

They will run away from this sword ⁸ 

and their young men will be forced to do hard labor.

Ezekiel 30:8

30:8 They will know that I am the Lord

when I ignite a fire in Egypt

and all her allies are defeated. ⁹ 

¹ sn The meaning of the line is that God’s anger will continue until it has accomplished its purpose (23:13-14).

² sn “Rahab” is not to be confused with the harlot of the same name from Jericho. “Rahab” is identified with Tiamat of the Babylonian creation epic, or Leviathan of the Canaanite myths. It is also used in parallelism to the sea (26:12), or the Red Sea (Ps 74:13), and so comes to symbolize Egypt (Isa 30:7). In the Babylonian Creation Epic there is reference to the helpers of Tiamat. In the Bible the reference is only to the raging sea, which the Lord controlled at creation.

³ tn The verb שָׁחַח (shakhakh) means “to be prostrate” or “to crouch.” Here the enemies are prostrate under the feet of God – they are crushed.

⁴ tn Heb “in that day” (so KJV).

⁵ sn This probably refers to the coastal region of Philistia (cf. TEV).

⁶ tn Heb “Assyria will fall by a sword, not of a man.”

⁷ tn Heb “and a sword not of humankind will devour him.”

⁸ tn Heb “he will flee for himself from before a sword.”

⁹ tn Heb “all who aid her are broken.”