Isaiah 22:4

22:4 So I say:

“Don’t look at me! ¹ 

I am weeping bitterly.

Don’t try ²  to console me

concerning the destruction of my defenseless people.” ³ 

Isaiah 30:1

Egypt Will Prove Unreliable

30:1 “The rebellious ⁴  children are as good as dead,” ⁵  says the Lord,

“those who make plans without consulting me, ⁶ 

who form alliances without consulting my Spirit, ⁷ 

and thereby compound their sin. ⁸ 

Isaiah 38:12

38:12 My dwelling place ⁹  is removed and taken away ¹⁰  from me

like a shepherd’s tent.

I rolled up my life like a weaver rolls cloth; ¹¹ 

from the loom he cuts me off. ¹² 

You turn day into night and end my life. ¹³ 

[22:4]  ¹ tn Heb “look away from me” (so KJV, ASV, NRSV).

[22:4]  ² tn Heb “don’t hurry” (so NCV).

[22:4]  ³ tn Heb “the daughter of my people.” “Daughter” is here used metaphorically to express the speaker’s emotional attachment to his people, as well as their vulnerability and weakness.

[30:1]  ⁴ tn Or “stubborn” (NCV); cf. NIV “obstinate.”

[30:1]  ⁵ tn Heb “Woe [to] rebellious children.”

[30:1]  ⁶ tn Heb “making a plan, but not from me.”

[30:1]  ⁷ tn Heb “and pouring out a libation, but not [from] my spirit.” This translation assumes that the verb נָסַךְ (nasakh) means “pour out,” and that the cognate noun מַסֵּכָה (massekhah) means “libation.” In this case “pouring out a libation” alludes to a ceremony that formally ratifies an alliance. Another option is to understand the verb נָסַךְ as a homonym meaning “weave,” and the cognate noun מַסֵּכָה as a homonym meaning “covering.” In this case forming an alliance is likened to weaving a garment.

[30:1]  ⁸ tn Heb “consequently adding sin to sin.”

[38:12]  ⁷ tn According to HALOT 217 s.v. דּוֹר this noun is a hapax legomenon meaning “dwelling place,” derived from a verbal root meaning “live” (see Ps 84:10). For an interpretation that understands the form as the well-attested noun meaning “generation,” see J. N. Oswalt, Isaiah (NICOT), 1:679, n. 4.

[38:12]  ⁸ tn The verb form appears to be a Niphal from גָּלָה (galah), which normally means “uncovered, revealed” in the Niphal. Because of the following reference to a shepherd’s tent, some prefer to emend the form to וְנָגַל, a Niphal from גָלָל (galal, “roll”) and translate “is rolled [or “folded”] up.”

[38:12]  ⁹ tn Heb “I rolled up, like a weaver, my life” (so ASV).

[38:12]  ¹⁰ sn For a discussion of the imagery employed here, see J. N. Oswalt, Isaiah (NICOT), 1:684.

[38:12]  ¹¹ tn Heb “from day to night you bring me to an end.”