Isaiah 28:8

28:8 Indeed, all the tables are covered with vomit;

no place is untouched. ¹ 

Isaiah 14:6

14:6 It ²  furiously struck down nations

with unceasing blows. ³ 

It angrily ruled over nations,

oppressing them without restraint. ⁴ 

Isaiah 32:10

32:10 In a year’s time ⁵ 

you carefree ones will shake with fear,

for the grape ⁶  harvest will fail,

and the fruit harvest will not arrive.

Isaiah 38:17

38:17 “Look, the grief I experienced was for my benefit. ⁷ 

You delivered me ⁸  from the pit of oblivion. ⁹ 

For you removed all my sins from your sight. ¹⁰ 

[28:8]  ¹ tn Heb “vomit, without a place.” For the meaning of the phrase בְּלִי מָקוֹם (bÿli maqom, “without a place”), see HALOT 133 s.v. בְּלִי.

[14:6]  ² tn Or perhaps, “he” (cf. KJV; NCV “the king of Babylon”). The present translation understands the referent of the pronoun (“it”) to be the “club/scepter” of the preceding line.

[14:6]  ³ tn Heb “it was striking down nations in fury [with] a blow without ceasing.” The participle (“striking down”) suggests repeated or continuous action in past time.

[14:6]  ⁴ tn Heb “it was ruling in anger nations [with] oppression without restraint.” The participle (“ruling”) suggests repeated or continuous action in past time.

[32:10]  ³ tn Heb “days upon a year.”

[32:10]  ⁴ tn Or perhaps, “olive.” See 24:13.

[38:17]  ⁴ tn Heb “Look, for peace bitterness was to me bitter”; NAB “thus is my bitterness transformed into peace.”

[38:17]  ⁵ tc The Hebrew text reads, “you loved my soul,” but this does not fit syntactically with the following prepositional phrase. חָשַׁקְתָּ (khashaqta, “you loved”), may reflect an aural error; most emend the form to חָשַׂכְת, (khasakht, “you held back”).

[38:17]  ⁶ tn בְּלִי (bÿli) most often appears as a negation, meaning “without,” suggesting the meaning “nothingness, oblivion,” here. Some translate “decay” or “destruction.”

[38:17]  ⁷ tn Heb “for you threw behind your back all my sins.”