Isaiah 52:5

52:5 And now, what do we have here?” ¹  says the Lord.

“Indeed my people have been carried away for nothing,

those who rule over them taunt,” ²  says the Lord,

“and my name is constantly slandered ³  all day long.

Isaiah 65:14

65:14 Look, my servants will shout for joy as happiness fills their hearts! ⁴ 

But you will cry out as sorrow fills your hearts; ⁵ 

you will wail because your spirits will be crushed. ⁶ 

Amos 8:3

8:3 The women singing in the temple ⁷  will wail in that day.”

The sovereign Lord is speaking.

“There will be many corpses littered everywhere! ⁸  Be quiet!”

James 5:1

Warning to the Rich

5:1 Come now, you rich! Weep and cry aloud ⁹  over the miseries that are coming on you.

[52:5]  ¹ tn Heb “and now what [following the marginal reading (Qere)] to me here?”

[52:5]  ² tn The verb appears to be a Hiphil form from the root יָלַל (yalal, “howl”), perhaps here in the sense of “mock.” Some emend the form to יְהוֹלָּלוֹ (yÿhollalo) and understand a Polel form of the root הָלַל meaning here “mock, taunt.”

[52:5]  ³ tn The verb is apparently a Hitpolal form (with assimilated tav, ת) from the root נָאַץ (na’ats), but GKC 151-52 §55.b explains it as a mixed form, combining Pual and Hitpolel readings.

[65:14]  ⁴ tn Heb “from the good of the heart.”

[65:14]  ⁵ tn Heb “from the pain of the heart.”

[65:14]  ⁶ tn Heb “from the breaking of the spirit.”

[8:3]  ⁷ tn Or “palace” (NASB, NCV, TEV).

[8:3]  ⁸ tn Heb “Many corpses in every place he will throw out.” The subject of the verb is probably impersonal, though many emend the active (Hiphil) form to a passive (Hophal): “Many corpses in every place will be thrown out.”

[5:1]  ⁹ tn Or “wail”; Grk “crying aloud.”