Isaiah 30:11

30:11 Turn aside from the way,

stray off the path. ¹ 

Remove from our presence the Holy One of Israel.” ² 

Isaiah 33:8

33:8 Highways are empty, ³ 

there are no travelers. ⁴ 

Treaties are broken, ⁵ 

witnesses are despised, ⁶ 

human life is treated with disrespect. ⁷ 

[30:11]  ¹ sn The imagery refers to the way or path of truth, as revealed by God to the prophet.

[30:11]  ² sn See the note on the phrase “the Holy One of Israel” in 1:4.

[33:8]  ³ tn Or “desolate” (NAB, NASB); NIV, NRSV, NLT “deserted.”

[33:8]  ⁴ tn Heb “the one passing by on the road ceases.”

[33:8]  ⁵ tn Heb “one breaks a treaty”; NAB “Covenants are broken.”

[33:8]  ⁶ 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]  ⁷ tn Heb “he does not regard human beings.”