Isaiah 21:2

21:2 I have received a distressing message: ¹ 

“The deceiver deceives,

the destroyer destroys.

Attack, you Elamites!

Lay siege, you Medes!

I will put an end to all the groaning!” ² 

Isaiah 23:1

The Lord Will Judge Tyre

23:1 Here is a message about Tyre:

Wail, you large ships, ³ 

for the port is too devastated to enter! ⁴ 

From the land of Cyprus ⁵  this news is announced to them.

Isaiah 33:20

33:20 Look at Zion, the city where we hold religious festivals!

You ⁶  will see Jerusalem, ⁷ 

a peaceful settlement,

a tent that stays put; ⁸ 

its stakes will never be pulled up;

none of its ropes will snap in two.

Isaiah 49:9

49:9 You will say ⁹  to the prisoners, ‘Come out,’

and to those who are in dark dungeons, ¹⁰  ‘Emerge.’ ¹¹ 

They will graze beside the roads;

on all the slopes they will find pasture.

[21:2]  ¹ tn Heb “a severe revelation has been related to me.”

[21:2]  ² sn This is often interpreted to mean “all the groaning” that Babylon has caused others.

[23:1]  ³ tn Heb “ships of Tarshish.” This probably refers to large ships either made in or capable of traveling to the distant western port of Tarshish.

[23:1]  ⁴ tc The Hebrew text reads literally, “for it is destroyed, from a house, from entering.” The translation assumes that the mem (מ) on בַּיִת (bayit) was originally an enclitic mem suffixed to the preceding verb. This assumption allows one to take בַּיִת as the subject of the preceding verb. It is used in a metaphorical sense for the port city of Tyre. The preposition min (מִן) prefixed to בּוֹא (bo’) indicates negative consequence: “so that no one can enter.” See BDB 583 s.v. מִן 7.b.

[23:1]  ⁵ tn Heb “the Kittim,” a designation for the people of Cyprus. See HALOT 504-05 s.v. כִּתִּיִּים.

[33:20]  ⁵ tn Heb “your eyes” (so NASB, NIV, NRSV).

[33:20]  ⁶ map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

[33:20]  ⁷ tn Or “that does not travel”; NASB “which shall not be folded.”

[49:9]  ⁷ tn Heb “to say.” In the Hebrew text the infinitive construct is subordinated to what precedes.

[49:9]  ⁸ tn Heb “in darkness” (so KJV, NAB, NASB, NIV, NRSV); NLT “the prisoners of darkness.”

[49:9]  ⁹ tn Heb “show yourselves” (so ASV, NAB, NASB).