Isaiah 20:2
Context20:2 At that time the Lord announced through 1 Isaiah son of Amoz: “Go, remove the sackcloth from your waist and take your sandals off your feet.” He did as instructed and walked around in undergarments 2 and barefoot.
Isaiah 37:10
Context37:10 “Tell King Hezekiah of Judah this: ‘Don’t let your God in whom you trust mislead you when he says, “Jerusalem will not be handed over to the king of Assyria.”
Isaiah 37:24
Context37:24 Through your messengers you taunted the sovereign master, 3
‘With my many chariots I climbed up
the high mountains,
the slopes of Lebanon.
I cut down its tall cedars
and its best evergreens.
I invaded its most remote regions, 4
its thickest woods.


[20:2] 1 tn Heb “spoke by the hand of.”
[20:2] 2 tn The word used here (עָרוֹם, ’arom) sometimes means “naked,” but here it appears to mean simply “lightly dressed,” i.e., stripped to one’s undergarments. See HALOT 883 s.v. עָרוֹם. The term also occurs in vv. 3, 4.
[37:24] 3 tn The Hebrew term translated “sovereign master” here is אֲדֹנָי (’adonay).
[37:24] 4 tn Heb “the height of its extremity”; ASV “its farthest height.”