Isaiah 37:36

37:36 The Lord’s messenger ¹  went out and killed 185,000 troops ²  in the Assyrian camp. When they ³  got up early the next morning, there were all the corpses! ⁴ 

Isaiah 66:23

66:23 From one month ⁵  to the next and from one Sabbath to the next, all people ⁶  will come to worship me,” ⁷  says the Lord.

Isaiah 22:17

22:17 Look, the Lord will throw you far away, ⁸  you mere man! ⁹ 

He will wrap you up tightly. ¹⁰ 

Isaiah 38:19

38:19 The living person, the living person, he gives you thanks,

as I do today.

A father tells his sons about your faithfulness.

Isaiah 37:30

37:30 ¹¹ “This will be your reminder that I have spoken the truth: ¹²  This year you will eat what grows wild, ¹³  and next year ¹⁴  what grows on its own. But the year after that ¹⁵  you will plant seed and harvest crops; you will plant vines and consume their produce. ¹⁶ 

Isaiah 3:16

Washing Away Impurity

3:16 The Lord says,

“The women ¹⁷  of Zion are proud.

They walk with their heads high ¹⁸ 

and flirt with their eyes.

They skip along ¹⁹ 

and the jewelry on their ankles jingles. ²⁰ 

Isaiah 37:38

37:38 One day, ²¹  as he was worshiping ²²  in the temple of his god Nisroch, ²³  his sons Adrammelech and Sharezer struck him down with the sword. ²⁴  They ran away to the land of Ararat; his son Esarhaddon replaced him as king.

[37:36]  ¹ tn Traditionally, “the angel of the Lord” (so NASB, NIV, NRSV, NLT).

[37:36]  ² tn The word “troops” is supplied in the translation for smoothness and clarity.

[37:36]  ³ tn This refers to the Israelites and/or the rest of the Assyrian army.

[37:36]  ⁴ tn Heb “look, all of them were dead bodies”; NLT “they found corpses everywhere.”

[66:23]  ⁵ tn Heb “new moon.” The verb that introduces this verse serves as a discourse particle and is untranslated; see note on “in the future” in 2:2.

[66:23]  ⁶ tn Heb “all flesh” (so KJV, ASV, NRSV); NAB, NASB, NIV “all mankind”; NLT “All humanity.”

[66:23]  ⁷ tn Or “bow down before” (NASB).

[22:17]  ⁹ tn Heb “will throw you with a throwing.”

[22:17]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “O man” (so NASB); NAB “mortal man”; NRSV “my fellow.”

[22:17]  ¹¹ tn Heb “and the one who wraps you [will] wrap.”

[37:30]  ¹³ tn At this point the word concerning the king of Assyria (vv. 22-29) ends and the Lord again addresses Hezekiah and the people directly (see v. 21).

[37:30]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “and this is your sign.” In this case the אוֹת (’ot, “sign”) is a future reminder of God’s intervention designated before the actual intervention takes place. For similar “signs” see Exod 3:12 and Isa 7:14-25.

[37:30]  ¹⁵ sn This refers to crops that grew up on their own (that is, without cultivation) from the seed planted in past years.

[37:30]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “and in the second year” (so ASV).

[37:30]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “in the third year” (so KJV, NAB).

[37:30]  ¹⁸ tn The four plural imperatival verb forms in v. 30b are used rhetorically. The Lord commands the people to plant, harvest, etc. to emphasize the certainty of restored peace and prosperity.

[3:16]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “daughters” (so KJV, NAB, NRSV).

[3:16]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “with an outstretched neck.” They proudly hold their heads high so that others can see the jewelry around their necks.

[3:16]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “walking and skipping, they walk.”

[3:16]  ²⁰ tn Heb “and with their feet they jingle.”

[37:38]  ²¹ sn The assassination of King Sennacherib probably took place in 681 b.c.

[37:38]  ²² tn The verb that introduces this verse serves as a discourse particle and is untranslated; see note on “in the future” in 2:2.

[37:38]  ²³ sn No such Mesopotamian god is presently known. Perhaps the name Nisroch is a corruption of Nusku.

[37:38]  ²⁴ sn Extra-biblical sources also mention the assassination of Sennacherib, though they refer to only one assassin. See M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 239-40.