Isaiah 10:19

10:19 There will be so few trees left in his forest,

a child will be able to count them. ¹ 

Isaiah 33:9

33:9 The land ²  dries up ³  and withers away;

the forest of Lebanon shrivels up ⁴  and decays.

Sharon ⁵  is like the desert; ⁶ 

Bashan and Carmel ⁷  are parched. ⁸ 

Isaiah 11:6

11:6 A wolf will reside ⁹  with a lamb,

and a leopard will lie down with a young goat;

an ox and a young lion will graze together, ¹⁰ 

as a small child leads them along.

[10:19]  ¹ tn Heb “and the rest of the trees of his forest will be counted, and a child will record them.”

[33:9]  ² tn Or “earth” (KJV); NAB “the country.”

[33:9]  ³ tn Or “mourns” (BDB 5 s.v. I אָבַל). HALOT 6-7 lists homonyms I אבל (“mourn”) and II אבל (“dry up”). They propose the second here on the basis of parallelism. See 24:4.

[33:9]  ⁴ tn Heb “Lebanon is ashamed.” The Hiphil is exhibitive, expressing the idea, “exhibits shame.” In this context the statement alludes to the withering of vegetation.

[33:9]  ⁵ sn Sharon was a fertile plain along the Mediterranean coast. See 35:2.

[33:9]  ⁶ tn Or “the Arabah” (NIV). See 35:1.

[33:9]  ⁷ sn Both of these areas were known for their trees and vegetation. See 2:13; 35:2.

[33:9]  ⁸ tn Heb “shake off [their leaves]” (so ASV, NRSV); NAB “are stripped bare.”

[11:6]  ³ tn The verb גּוּר (gur) normally refers to living as a dependent, resident alien in another society.

[11:6]  ⁴ tc The Hebrew text reads, “and an ox, and a young lion, and a fatling together.” Since the preceding lines refer to two animals and include a verb, many emend וּמְרִיא (umÿri’, “and the fatling”) to an otherwise unattested verb יִמְרְאוּ (yimrÿ’u, “they will graze”); cf. NAB, TEV, CEV. One of the Qumran copies of Isaiah confirms this suggestion (1QIsa^a). The present translation assumes this change.