Isaiah 2:20

2:20 At that time ¹  men will throw

their silver and gold idols,

which they made for themselves to worship, ² 

into the caves where rodents and bats live, ³ 

Isaiah 9:4

9:4 For their oppressive yoke

and the club that strikes their shoulders,

the cudgel the oppressor uses on them, ⁴ 

you have shattered, as in the day of Midian’s defeat. ⁵ 

Isaiah 17:9

17:9 At that time ⁶  their fortified cities will be

like the abandoned summits of the Amorites, ⁷ 

which they abandoned because of the Israelites;

there will be desolation.

Isaiah 22:12

22:12 At that time the sovereign master, the Lord who commands armies, called for weeping and mourning,

for shaved heads and sackcloth. ⁸ 

Isaiah 52:6

52:6 For this reason my people will know my name,

for this reason they will know ⁹  at that time ¹⁰  that I am the one who says,

‘Here I am.’”

[2:20]  ¹ tn Or “in that day” (KJV).

[2:20]  ² tn Or “bow down to.”

[2:20]  ³ tn Heb “to the shrews and to the bats.” On the meaning of חֲפַרְפָּרָה (khafarparah, “shrew”), see HALOT 341 s.v. חֲפַרְפָּרָה. The BHS text as it stands (לַחְפֹּר פֵּרוֹת, perot lakhpor), makes no sense. Based on Theodotion’s transliteration and a similar reading in the Qumran scroll 1QIsa^a, most scholars suggest that the MT mistakenly divided a noun (a hapax legomenon) that should be translated “moles,” “shrews,” or “rodents.”

[9:4]  ⁴ tn Heb “for the yoke of his burden, and the staff of his shoulder, the scepter of the oppressor against him.” The singular pronouns are collective, referring to the people. The oppressed nation is compared to an ox weighed down by a heavy yoke and an animal that is prodded and beaten.

[9:4]  ⁵ sn This alludes to Gideon’s victory over Midian (Judg 7-8), when the Lord delivered Israel from an oppressive foreign invader.

[17:9]  ⁷ tn Heb “in that day” (so KJV).

[17:9]  ⁸ tn The Hebrew text reads literally, “like the abandonment of the wooded height and the top one.” The following relative clause appears to allude back to the Israelite conquest of the land, so it seems preferable to emend הַחֹרֶשׁ וְהָאָמִיר (hakhoresh vÿha’amir, “the wooded height and the top one”) to חֹרֵשֵׁי הָאֱמֹרִי (khoreshe ha’emori, “[like the abandonment] of the wooded heights of the Amorites”).

[22:12]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “for baldness and the wearing of sackcloth.” See the note at 15:2.

[52:6]  ¹³ tn The verb is understood by ellipsis (note the preceding line).

[52:6]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “in that day” (so KJV, NASB, NIV, NRSV).