Isaiah 34:6

34:6 The Lord’s sword is dripping with blood,

it is covered ¹  with fat;

it drips ²  with the blood of young rams and goats

and is covered ³  with the fat of rams’ kidneys.

For the Lord is holding a sacrifice ⁴  in Bozrah, ⁵ 

a bloody ⁶  slaughter in the land of Edom.

Isaiah 38:3

38:3 “Please, Lord. Remember how I have served you ⁷  faithfully and with wholehearted devotion, ⁸  and how I have carried out your will.” ⁹  Then Hezekiah wept bitterly. ¹⁰ 

[34:6]  ¹ tn The verb is a rare Hotpaal passive form. See GKC 150 §54.h.

[34:6]  ² tn The words “it drips” are supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[34:6]  ³ tn The words “and is covered” are supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[34:6]  ⁴ tn Heb “for there is a sacrifice to the Lord.”

[34:6]  ⁵ sn The Lord’s judgment of Edom is compared to a bloody sacrificial scene.

[34:6]  ⁶ tn Heb “great” (so KJV, NAB, NASB, NIV, NRSV).

[38:3]  ⁷ tn Heb “walked before you.” For a helpful discussion of the background and meaning of this Hebrew idiom, see M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 254.

[38:3]  ⁸ tn Heb “and with a complete heart”; KJV, ASV “with a perfect heart.”

[38:3]  ⁹ tn Heb “and that which is good in your eyes I have done.”

[38:3]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “wept with great weeping”; NCV “cried loudly”; TEV “began to cry bitterly.”