Isaiah 3:1

A Coming Leadership Crisis

3:1 Look, the sovereign Lord who commands armies ¹ 

is about to remove from Jerusalem ²  and Judah

every source of security, including ³ 

all the food and water, ⁴ 

Isaiah 37:17

37:17 Pay attention, Lord, and hear! Open your eyes, Lord, and observe! Listen to this entire message Sennacherib sent and how he taunts the living God! ⁵ 

Isaiah 38:20

38:20 The Lord is about to deliver me, ⁶ 

and we will celebrate with music ⁷ 

for the rest of our lives in the Lord’s temple.” ⁸ 

Isaiah 59:11

59:11 We all growl like bears,

we coo mournfully like doves;

we wait for deliverance, ⁹  but there is none,

for salvation, but it is far from us.

[3:1]  ¹ tn Heb “the master, the Lord who commands armies [traditionally, the Lord of hosts].” On the title “the Lord who commands armies,” see the note at 1:9.

[3:1]  ² map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

[3:1]  ³ tn Heb “support and support.” The masculine and feminine forms of the noun are placed side-by-side to emphasize completeness. See GKC 394 §122.v.

[3:1]  ⁴ tn Heb “all the support of food, and all the support of water.”

[37:17]  ⁵ tn Heb “Hear all the words of Sennacherib which he sent to taunt the living God.”

[38:20]  ⁹ tn The infinitive construct is used here to indicate that an action is imminent. See GKC 348-49 §114.i, and IBHS 610 §36.2.3g.

[38:20]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “and music [or perhaps, “stringed instruments”] we will play.”

[38:20]  ¹¹ tn Heb “all the days of our lives in the house of the Lord.”

[59:11]  ¹³ tn See the note at v. 9.