Isaiah 8:22

8:22 When one looks out over the land, he sees ¹  distress and darkness, gloom ²  and anxiety, darkness and people forced from the land. ³ 

Isaiah 22:8

22:8 They ⁴  removed the defenses ⁵  of Judah.

At that time ⁶  you looked

for the weapons in the House of the Forest. ⁷ 

Isaiah 51:2

51:2 Look at Abraham, your father,

and Sarah, who gave you birth. ⁸ 

When I summoned him, he was a lone individual, ⁹ 

but I blessed him ¹⁰  and gave him numerous descendants. ¹¹ 

Isaiah 63:5

63:5 I looked, but there was no one to help;

I was shocked because there was no one offering support. ¹² 

So my right arm accomplished deliverance;

my raging anger drove me on. ¹³ 

[8:22]  ¹ tn Heb “and behold” (so KJV, ASV, NASB).

[8:22]  ² tn The precise meaning of מְעוּף (mÿ’uf) is uncertain; the word occurs only here. See BDB 734 s.v. מָעוּף.

[8:22]  ³ tn Heb “ and darkness, pushed.” The word מְנֻדָּח (mÿnudakh) appears to be a Pual participle from נדח (“push”), but the Piel is unattested for this verb and the Pual occurs only here.

[22:8]  ⁴ tn Heb “he,” i.e., the enemy invader. NASB, by its capitalization of the pronoun, takes this to refer to the Lord.

[22:8]  ⁵ tn Heb “covering.”

[22:8]  ⁶ tn Heb “in that day” (so KJV), likewise at the beginning of v. 12.

[22:8]  ⁷ sn Perhaps this refers to a royal armory, or to Solomon’s “House of the Forest of Lebanon,” where weapons may have been kept (see 1 Kgs 10:16-17).

[51:2]  ⁷ sn Although Abraham and Sarah are distant ancestors of the people the prophet is addressing, they are spoken of as the immediate parents.

[51:2]  ⁸ tn Heb “one”; NLT “was alone”; TEV “was childless.”

[51:2]  ⁹ tn “Bless” may here carry the sense of “endue with potency, reproductive power.” See Gen 1:28.

[51:2]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “and I made him numerous.”

[63:5]  ¹⁰ sn See Isa 59:16 for similar language.

[63:5]  ¹¹ tn Heb “and my anger, it supported me”; NIV “my own wrath sustained me.”