Isaiah 13:20

13:20 No one will live there again;

no one will ever reside there again. ¹ 

No bedouin ²  will camp ³  there,

no shepherds will rest their flocks ⁴  there.

Isaiah 21:10

21:10 O my downtrodden people, crushed like stalks on the threshing floor, ⁵ 

what I have heard

from the Lord who commands armies,

the God of Israel,

I have reported to you.

Isaiah 46:1

The Lord Carries His People

46:1 Bel ⁶  kneels down,

Nebo ⁷  bends low.

Their images weigh down animals and beasts. ⁸ 

Your heavy images are burdensome to tired animals. ⁹ 

Isaiah 52:11

52:11 Leave! Leave! Get out of there!

Don’t touch anything unclean!

Get out of it!

Stay pure, you who carry the Lord’s holy items! ¹⁰ 

[13:20]  ¹ tn Heb “she will not be inhabited forever, and she will not be dwelt in to generation and generation (i.e., forever).” The Lord declares that Babylon, personified as a woman, will not be inhabited. In other words, her people will be destroyed and the Chaldean empire will come to a permanent end.

[13:20]  ² tn Or “Arab” (NAB, NASB, NIV); cf. CEV, NLT “nomads.”

[13:20]  ³ tn יַהֵל (yahel) is probably a corrupted form of יֶאֱהַל (ye’ehal). See GKC 186 §68.k.

[13:20]  ⁴ tn The words “their flocks” are supplied in the translation for clarification. The Hebrew text does not supply the object here, but see Jer 33:12.

[21:10]  ⁵ tn Heb “My trampled one, and the son of the threshing floor.”

[46:1]  ⁹ sn Bel was the name of a Babylonian god. The name was originally associated with Enlil, but later was applied to Marduk. See HALOT 132 s.v. בֵּל.

[46:1]  ¹⁰ sn Nebo is a variation of the name of the Babylonian god Nabu.

[46:1]  ¹¹ tn Heb “their images belong to animals and beasts”; NIV “their idols are borne by beasts of burden”; NLT “are being hauled away.”

[46:1]  ¹² tn Heb “your loads are carried [as] a burden by a weary [animal].”

[52:11]  ¹³ tn Heb “the vessels of the Lord” (so KJV, NAB).