Isaiah 33:4

33:4 Your plunder ¹  disappears as if locusts were eating it; ² 

they swarm over it like locusts! ³ 

Isaiah 32:10

32:10 In a year’s time ⁴ 

you carefree ones will shake with fear,

for the grape ⁵  harvest will fail,

and the fruit harvest will not arrive.

Isaiah 4:1

4:1 Seven women will grab hold of

one man at that time. ⁶ 

They will say, “We will provide ⁷  our own food,

we will provide ⁸  our own clothes;

but let us belong to you ⁹  –

take away our shame!” ¹⁰ 

Isaiah 36:3

36:3 Eliakim son of Hilkiah, the palace supervisor, accompanied by Shebna the scribe and Joah son of Asaph, the secretary, went out to meet him.

Isaiah 36:22

36:22 Eliakim son of Hilkiah, the palace supervisor, accompanied by Shebna the scribe and Joah son of Asaph, the secretary, went to Hezekiah with their clothes torn in grief ¹¹  and reported to him what the chief adviser had said.

[33:4]  ¹ tn The pronoun is plural; the statement is addressed to the nations who have stockpiled plunder from their conquests of others.

[33:4]  ² tn Heb “and your plunder is gathered, the gathering of the locust.”

[33:4]  ³ tn Heb “like a swarm of locusts swarming on it.”

[32:10]  ⁴ tn Heb “days upon a year.”

[32:10]  ⁵ tn Or perhaps, “olive.” See 24:13.

[4:1]  ⁷ tn Or “in that day” (ASV).

[4:1]  ⁸ tn Heb “eat” (so NASB, NIV, NRSV); CEV “buy.”

[4:1]  ⁹ tn Heb “wear” (so NASB, NRSV); NCV “make.”

[4:1]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “only let your name be called over us.” The Hebrew idiom “call the name over” indicates ownership. See 2 Sam 12:28, and BDB 896 s.v. I ָקרָא Niph. 2.d.(4). The language reflects the cultural reality of ancient Israel, where women were legally the property of their husbands.

[4:1]  ¹¹ sn This refers to the humiliation of being unmarried and childless. The women’s words reflect the cultural standards of ancient Israel, where a woman’s primary duties were to be a wife and mother.

[36:22]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “with their clothes torn”; the words “in grief” have been supplied in the translation to indicate that this was done as a sign of grief and mourning.