Isaiah 33:7

33:7 Look, ambassadors ¹  cry out in the streets;

messengers sent to make peace ²  weep bitterly.

Isaiah 42:2

42:2 He will not cry out or shout;

he will not publicize himself in the streets. ³ 

Isaiah 15:3

15:3 In their streets they wear sackcloth;

on their roofs and in their town squares

all of them wail,

they fall down weeping.

Isaiah 24:11

24:11 They howl in the streets because of what happened to the wine; ⁴ 

all joy turns to sorrow; ⁵ 

celebrations disappear from the earth. ⁶ 

Isaiah 10:6

10:6 I sent him ⁷  against a godless ⁸  nation,

I ordered him to attack the people with whom I was angry, ⁹ 

to take plunder and to carry away loot,

to trample them down ¹⁰  like dirt in the streets.

Isaiah 51:20

51:20 Your children faint;

they lie at the head of every street

like an antelope in a snare.

They are left in a stupor by the Lord’s anger,

by the battle cry of your God. ¹¹ 

Isaiah 51:23

51:23 I will put it into the hand of your tormentors ¹² 

who said to you, ‘Lie down, so we can walk over you.’

You made your back like the ground,

and like the street for those who walked over you.”

Isaiah 5:25

5:25 So the Lord is furious ¹³  with his people;

he lifts ¹⁴  his hand and strikes them.

The mountains shake,

and corpses lie like manure ¹⁵  in the middle of the streets.

Despite all this, his anger does not subside,

and his hand is ready to strike again. ¹⁶ 

[33:7]  ¹ tn The meaning of the Hebrew word is unknown. Proposals include “heroes” (cf. KJV, ASV “valiant ones”; NASB, NIV “brave men”); “priests,” “residents [of Jerusalem].” The present translation assumes that the term is synonymous with “messengers of peace,” with which it corresponds in the parallel structure of the verse.

[33:7]  ² tn Heb “messengers of peace,” apparently those responsible for negotiating the agreements that have been broken (see v. 8).

[42:2]  ³ tn Heb “he will not cause his voice to be heard in the street.”

[24:11]  ⁵ tn Heb “[there is] an outcry over the wine in the streets.”

[24:11]  ⁶ tn Heb “all joy turns to evening,” the darkness of evening symbolizing distress and sorrow.

[24:11]  ⁷ tn Heb “the joy of the earth disappears.”

[10:6]  ⁷ sn Throughout this section singular forms are used to refer to Assyria; perhaps the king of Assyria is in view (see v. 12).

[10:6]  ⁸ tn Or “defiled”; cf. ASV “profane”; NAB “impious”; NCV “separated from God.”

[10:6]  ⁹ tn Heb “and against the people of my anger I ordered him.”

[10:6]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “to make it [i.e., the people] a trampled place.”

[51:20]  ⁹ tn Heb “those who are full of the anger of the Lord, the shout [or “rebuke”] of your God.”

[51:23]  ¹¹ tn That is, to make them drink it.

[5:25]  ¹³ tn Heb “the anger of the Lord rages.”

[5:25]  ¹⁴ tn Or “extends”; KJV, ASV “he hath stretched forth.”

[5:25]  ¹⁵ tn Or “garbage” (NCV, CEV, NLT); NAB, NASB, NIV “refuse.”

[5:25]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “in all this his anger is not turned, and still his hand is outstretched.”