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 57:11
Context57:11 Whom are you worried about?
Whom do you fear, that you would act so deceitfully
and not remember me
or think about me? 3
Because I have been silent for so long, 4
you are not afraid of me. 5


[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.”
[57:11] 3 tn Heb “you do not place [it] on your heart.”
[57:11] 4 tn Heb “Is it not [because] I have been silent, and from long ago?”
[57:11] 5 sn God’s patience with sinful Israel has caused them to think that they can sin with impunity and suffer no consequences.