Isaiah 30:31

30:31 Indeed, the Lord’s shout will shatter Assyria; ¹ 

he will beat them with a club.

Isaiah 10:24

10:24 So ²  here is what the sovereign master, the Lord who commands armies, says: “My people who live in Zion, do not be afraid of Assyria, even though they beat you with a club and lift their cudgel against you as Egypt did. ³ 

Isaiah 23:13

23:13 Look at the land of the Chaldeans,

these people who have lost their identity! ⁴ 

The Assyrians have made it a home for wild animals.

They erected their siege towers, ⁵ 

demolished ⁶  its fortresses,

and turned it into a heap of ruins. ⁷ 

Isaiah 9:11

9:11 Then the Lord provoked ⁸  their adversaries to attack them, ⁹ 

he stirred up ¹⁰  their enemies –

Isaiah 33:4

33:4 Your plunder ¹¹  disappears as if locusts were eating it; ¹² 

they swarm over it like locusts! ¹³ 

[30:31]  ¹ tn Heb “Indeed by the voice of the Lord Assyria will be shattered.”

[10:24]  ² tn Heb “therefore.” The message that follows is one of encouragement, for it focuses on the eventual destruction of the Assyrians. Consequently “therefore” relates back to vv. 5-21, not to vv. 22-23, which must be viewed as a brief parenthesis in an otherwise positive speech.

[10:24]  ³ tn Heb “in the way [or “manner”] of Egypt.”

[23:13]  ³ tn Heb “this people [that] is not.”

[23:13]  ⁴ tn For the meaning of this word, see HALOT 118 s.v. *בַּחוּן.

[23:13]  ⁵ tn Or “laid bare.” For the meaning of this word, see HALOT 889 s.v. ערר.

[23:13]  ⁶ sn This verse probably refers to the Assyrian destruction of Babylon.

[9:11]  ⁴ tn The translation assumes that the prefixed verb with vav (ו) consecutive continues the narrative of past judgment.

[9:11]  ⁵ tc The Hebrew text reads literally, “adversaries of Rezin against him [i.e., them].” The next verse describes how the Syrians (over whom Rezin ruled, see 7:1, 8) and the Philistines encroached on Israel’s territory. Since the Syrians and Israelites were allies by 735 b.c. (see 7:1), the hostilities described probably occurred earlier, while Israel was still pro-Assyrian. In this case one might understand the phrase צָרֵי רְצִין (tsare rÿtsin, “adversaries of Rezin”) as meaning “adversaries sent from Rezin.” However, another option, the one chosen in the translation above, is to emend the phrase to צָרָיו (tsarayv, “his [i.e., their] adversaries”). This creates tighter parallelism with the next line (note “his [i.e., their] enemies”). The phrase in the Hebrew text may be explained as virtually dittographic.

[9:11]  ⁶ tn The prefixed verbal form is understood as a preterite, used, as is often the case in poetry, without vav consecutive. Note that prefixed forms with vav consecutive both precede (וַיְשַׂגֵּב, vaysaggev, “and he provoked”) and follow in v. 12 (וַיֹּאכְלוּ, vayyo’khÿlu, “and they devoured”) this verb.

[33:4]  ⁵ tn The pronoun is plural; the statement is addressed to the nations who have stockpiled plunder from their conquests of others.

[33:4]  ⁶ tn Heb “and your plunder is gathered, the gathering of the locust.”

[33:4]  ⁷ tn Heb “like a swarm of locusts swarming on it.”