Isaiah 15:9

15:9 Indeed, the waters of Dimon ¹  are full of blood!

Indeed, I will heap even more trouble on Dimon. ² 

A lion will attack ³  the Moabite fugitives

and the people left in the land.

Isaiah 45:9

The Lord Gives a Warning

45:9 One who argues with his creator is in grave danger, ⁴ 

one who is like a mere ⁵  shard among the other shards on the ground!

The clay should not say to the potter, ⁶ 

“What in the world ⁷  are you doing?

Your work lacks skill!” ⁸ 

[15:9]  ¹ tc The Qumran scroll 1QIsa^a reads “Dibon” instead of “Dimon” in this verse.

[15:9]  ² tn Heb “Indeed I will place on Dimon added things.” Apparently the Lord is speaking.

[15:9]  ³ tn The words “will attack” are supplied in the translation for clarification.

[45:9]  ⁴ tn Heb “Woe [to] the one who argues with the one who formed him.”

[45:9]  ⁵ tn The words “one who is like a mere” are supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons and clarification.

[45:9]  ⁶ tn Heb “Should the clay say to the one who forms it?” The rhetorical question anticipates a reply, “Of course not!”

[45:9]  ⁷ tn The words “in the world” are supplied in the translation to approximate in English idiom the force of the sarcastic question.

[45:9]  ⁸ tn Heb “your work, there are no hands for it,” i.e., “your work looks like something made by a person who has no hands.”