Isaiah 5:27-30

5:27 None tire or stumble,

they don’t stop to nap or sleep.

They don’t loosen their belts,

or unstrap their sandals to rest. ¹ 

5:28 Their arrows are sharpened,

and all their bows are prepared. ² 

The hooves of their horses are hard as flint, ³ 

and their chariot wheels are like a windstorm. ⁴ 

5:29 Their roar is like a lion’s;

they roar like young lions.

They growl and seize their prey;

they drag it away and no one can come to the rescue.

5:30 At that time ⁵  they will growl over their prey, ⁶ 

it will sound like sea waves crashing against rocks. ⁷ 

One will look out over the land and see the darkness of disaster,

clouds will turn the light into darkness. ⁸ 

[5:27]  ¹ tn Heb “and the belt on his waist is not opened, and the thong of his sandals is not torn in two.”

[5:28]  ² tn Heb “bent” (so KJV, NAB, NASB, NRSV); NIV “are strung.”

[5:28]  ³ tn Heb “regarded like flint.”

[5:28]  ⁴ sn They are like a windstorm in their swift movement and in the way they kick up dust.

[5:30]  ⁵ tn Or “in that day” (KJV).

[5:30]  ⁶ tn Heb “over it”; the referent (the prey) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[5:30]  ⁷ tn Heb “like the growling of the sea.”

[5:30]  ⁸ tn Heb “and one will gaze toward the land, and look, darkness of distress, and light will grow dark by its [the land’s?] clouds.”