Isaiah 16:10

16:10 Joy and happiness disappear from the orchards,

and in the vineyards no one rejoices or shouts;

no one treads out juice in the wine vats ¹  –

I have brought the joyful shouts to an end. ² 

Isaiah 32:10-12

32:10 In a year’s time ³ 

you carefree ones will shake with fear,

for the grape ⁴  harvest will fail,

and the fruit harvest will not arrive.

32:11 Tremble, you complacent ones!

Shake with fear, you carefree ones!

Strip off your clothes and expose yourselves –

put sackcloth on your waist! ⁵ 

32:12 Mourn over the field, ⁶ 

over the delightful fields

and the fruitful vine!

Jeremiah 48:33

48:33 Joy and gladness will disappear

from the fruitful land of Moab. ⁷ 

I will stop the flow of wine from the winepresses.

No one will stomp on the grapes there and shout for joy. ⁸ 

The shouts there will be shouts of soldiers,

not the shouts of those making wine. ⁹ 

Hosea 9:1-2

Fertility Cult Festivals Have Intoxicated Israel

9:1 O Israel, do not rejoice jubilantly ¹⁰  like the nations,

for you are unfaithful ¹¹  to your God.

You love to receive a prostitute's wages ¹² 

on all the floors where you thresh your grain.

9:2 Threshing floors and wine vats will not feed the people, ¹³ 

and new wine only deceives them. ¹⁴ 

[16:10]  ¹ tn Heb “wine in the vats the treader does not tread.”

[16:10]  ² sn The Lord appears to be the speaker here. See 15:9.

[32:10]  ³ tn Heb “days upon a year.”

[32:10]  ⁴ tn Or perhaps, “olive.” See 24:13.

[32:11]  ⁵ tn The imperatival forms in v. 11 are problematic. The first (חִרְדוּ, khirdu, “tremble”) is masculine plural in form, though spoken to a feminine plural addressee (שַׁאֲנַנּוֹת, sha’anannot, “complacent ones”). The four imperatival forms that follow (רְגָזָה, rÿgazah, “shake with fear”; פְּשֹׁטָה, pÿshotah, “strip off your clothes”; עֹרָה, ’orah, “expose yourselves”; and חֲגוֹרָה, khagorah, “put on”) all appear to be lengthened (so-called “emphatic”) masculine singular forms, even though they too appear to be spoken to a feminine plural addressee. GKC 131-32 §48.i suggests emending חִרְדוּ (khirdu) to חֲרָדָה (kharadah) and understanding all five imperatives as feminine plural “aramaized” forms.

[32:12]  ⁶ tc The Hebrew text has “over mourning breasts.” The reference to “breasts” would make sense in light of v. 11, which refers to the practice of women baring their breasts as a sign of sorrow (see J. N. Oswalt, Isaiah [NICOT], 1:585). However, one expects the preposition עַל (’al) to introduce the source or reason for mourning (see vv. 12b-13a) and the participle סֹפְדִים (sofedim, “mourning”) seems odd modifying “breasts.” The translation above assumes a twofold emendation: (1) שָׁדַיִם (shadayim, “breasts”) is emended to [ם]שָׂדַי (saday[m], “field,” a term that also appears in Isa 56:9). The final mem (ם) would be enclitic in this case, not a plural indicator. (The Hebrew noun שָׂדֶה (sadeh, “field”) forms its plural with an וֹת- [-ot] ending). (2) The plural participle סֹפְדִים is emended to סְפֹדָה (sÿfodah), a lengthened imperatival form, meaning “mourn.” For an overview of various suggestions that have been made for this difficult line, see Oswalt, 586, n. 12).

[48:33]  ⁷ tn Heb “from the garden land, even from the land of Moab.” Comparison with the parallel passage in Isa 16:10 and the translation of the Greek text here (which has only “the land of Moab”) suggest that the second phrase is appositional to the first.

[48:33]  ⁸ tn Heb “no one will tread [the grapes] with shout of joy.”

[48:33]  ⁹ tn Heb “shouts will not be shouts.” The text has been expanded contextually to explain that the shouts of those treading grapes in winepresses will come to an end (v. 33a-d) and be replaced by the shouts of the soldiers who trample down the vineyards (v. 32e-f). Compare 25:30 and 51:41 for the idea.

[9:1]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “do not rejoice unto jubilation”; KJV “Rejoice not…for joy”; NASB “Do not rejoice…with exultation.”

[9:1]  ¹¹ tn Heb “you have committed adultery”; NRSV “you have played the whore.”

[9:1]  ¹² tn Heb “you love the wages of the prostitute” (NIV similar); NAB “loving a harlot’s hire.”

[9:2]  ¹³ tn Heb “them”; the referent (the people) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[9:2]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “her” (so KJV, ASV). This is taken as a collective singular (so also most modern English versions).