Discovery BoxIsaiah 24:16
Context24:16 From the ends of the earth we 1 hear songs –
the Just One is majestic. 2
But I 3 say, “I’m wasting away! I’m wasting away! I’m doomed!
Deceivers deceive, deceivers thoroughly deceive!” 4
Isaiah 33:1
Context33:1 The destroyer is as good as dead, 5
you who have not been destroyed!
The deceitful one is as good as dead, 6
the one whom others have not deceived!
When you are through destroying, you will be destroyed;
when you finish 7 deceiving, others will deceive you!
[24:16] 1 sn The identity of the subject is unclear. Apparently in vv. 15-16a an unidentified group responds to the praise they hear in the west by exhorting others to participate.
[24:16] 2 tn Heb “Beauty belongs to the just one.” These words may summarize the main theme of the songs mentioned in the preceding line.
[24:16] 3 sn The prophet seems to contradict what he hears the group saying. Their words are premature because more destruction is coming.
[24:16] 4 tn Heb “and [with] deception deceivers deceive.”
[33:1] 5 tn Heb “Woe [to] the destroyer.”
[33:1] 6 tn Heb “and the deceitful one”; NAB, NIV “O traitor”; NRSV “you treacherous one.” In the parallel structure הוֹי (hoy, “woe [to]”) does double duty.
[33:1] 7 tc The form in the Hebrew text appears to derive from an otherwise unattested verb נָלָה (nalah). The translation follows the Qumran scroll 1QIsaa in reading ככלתך, a Piel infinitival form from the verbal root כָּלָה (kalah), meaning “finish.”
