Isaiah 36:12
Context36:12 But the chief adviser said, “My master did not send me to speak these words only to your master and to you. 1 His message is also for the men who sit on the wall, for they will eat their own excrement and drink their own urine along with you!” 2
Isaiah 37:6
Context37:6 Isaiah said to them, “Tell your master this: ‘This is what the Lord says: “Don’t be afraid because of the things you have heard – these insults the king of Assyria’s servants have hurled against me. 3
Isaiah 42:16
Context42:16 I will lead the blind along an unfamiliar way; 4
I will guide them down paths they have never traveled. 5
I will turn the darkness in front of them into light,
and level out the rough ground. 6
This is what I will do for them.
I will not abandon them.


[36:12] 1 tn Heb “To your master and to you did my master send me to speak these words?” The rhetorical question expects a negative answer.
[36:12] 2 tn Heb “[Is it] not [also] to the men…?” The rhetorical question expects the answer, “Yes, it is.”
[37:6] 3 tn Heb “by which the servants of the king of Assyria have insulted me.”
[42:16] 5 tn Heb “a way they do not know” (so NASB); NRSV “a road they do not know.”
[42:16] 6 tn Heb “in paths they do not know I will make them walk.”