Isaiah 33:16

33:16 This is the person who will live in a secure place; ¹ 

he will find safety in the rocky, mountain strongholds; ² 

he will have food

and a constant supply of water.

Isaiah 49:19

49:19 Yes, your land lies in ruins;

it is desolate and devastated. ³ 

But now you will be too small to hold your residents,

and those who devoured you will be far away.

Isaiah 65:4

65:4 They sit among the tombs ⁴ 

and keep watch all night long. ⁵ 

They eat pork, ⁶ 

and broth ⁷  from unclean sacrificial meat is in their pans.

[33:16]  ¹ tn Heb “he [in the] exalted places will live.”

[33:16]  ² tn Heb “mountain strongholds, cliffs [will be] his elevated place.”

[49:19]  ³ tn Heb “Indeed your ruins and your desolate places, and the land of your destruction.” This statement is abruptly terminated in the Hebrew text and left incomplete.

[65:4]  ⁵ sn Perhaps the worship of underworld deities or dead spirits is in view.

[65:4]  ⁶ tn The Hebrew text reads literally, “and in the watches they spend the night.” Some understand נְּצוּרִים (nÿtsurim) as referring to “secret places” or “caves,” while others emend the text to וּבֵין צוּרִים (uven tsurim, “between the rocky cliffs”).

[65:4]  ⁷ tn Heb “the flesh of the pig”; KJV, NAB, NASB “swine’s flesh.”

[65:4]  ⁸ tc The marginal reading (Qere), supported by the Qumran scroll 1QIsa^a, reads מְרַק (mÿraq, “broth”), while the consonantal text (Kethib) has פְרַק (feraq, “fragment”).