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Isaiah 1:22

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1:22 Your 1  silver has become scum, 2 

your beer is diluted with water. 3 

Isaiah 12:3

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12:3 Joyfully you will draw water

from the springs of deliverance. 4 

Isaiah 19:5

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19:5 The water of the sea will be dried up,

and the river will dry up and be empty. 5 

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[1:22]  1 tn The pronoun is feminine singular; personified Jerusalem (see v. 21) is addressed.

[1:22]  2 tn Or “dross.” The word refers to the scum or impurites floating on the top of melted metal.

[1:22]  3 sn The metaphors of silver becoming impure and beer being watered down picture the moral and ethical degeneration that had occurred in Jerusalem.

[12:3]  4 tn Or “salvation” (so many English versions, e.g., KJV, NAB, NIV, NRSV, NLT); CEV “victory.”

[19:5]  7 tn Heb “will dry up and be dry.” Two synonyms are joined for emphasis.



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