Isaiah 29:5

29:5 But the horde of invaders will be like fine dust,

the horde of tyrants ¹  like chaff that is blown away.

It will happen suddenly, in a flash.

Isaiah 33:8

33:8 Highways are empty, ² 

there are no travelers. ³ 

Treaties are broken, ⁴ 

witnesses are despised, ⁵ 

human life is treated with disrespect. ⁶ 

[29:5]  ¹ tn Or “violent men”; cf. NASB “the ruthless ones.”

[33:8]  ² tn Or “desolate” (NAB, NASB); NIV, NRSV, NLT “deserted.”

[33:8]  ³ tn Heb “the one passing by on the road ceases.”

[33:8]  ⁴ tn Heb “one breaks a treaty”; NAB “Covenants are broken.”

[33:8]  ⁵ tc The Hebrew text reads literally, “he despises cities.” The term עָרִים (’arim, “cities”) is probably a corruption of an original עֵדִים (’edim, “[legal] witnesses”), a reading that is preserved in the Qumran scroll 1QIsa^a. Confusion of dalet (ד) and resh (ר) is a well-attested scribal error.

[33:8]  ⁶ tn Heb “he does not regard human beings.”