[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.
[38:4] 4 tn Heb “and the word of the Lord came to Isaiah, saying.”
[55:6] 7 tn Heb “while he allows himself to be found.” The Niphal form has a tolerative force here.
