11:16 There will be a highway leading out of Assyria
for the remnant of his people, 1
just as there was for Israel,
when 2 they went up from the land of Egypt.
33:8 Highways are empty, 3
there are no travelers. 4
Treaties are broken, 5
witnesses are despised, 6
human life is treated with disrespect. 7
1 tn Heb “and there will be a highway for the remnant of his people who remain, from Assyria.”
2 tn Heb “in the day” (so KJV).
3 tn Or “desolate” (NAB, NASB); NIV, NRSV, NLT “deserted.”
4 tn Heb “the one passing by on the road ceases.”
5 tn Heb “one breaks a treaty”; NAB “Covenants are broken.”
6 tc The Hebrew text reads literally, “he despises cities.” The term עָרִים (’arim, “cities”) is probably a corruption of an original עֵדִים (’edim, “[legal] witnesses”), a reading that is preserved in the Qumran scroll 1QIsaa. Confusion of dalet (ד) and resh (ר) is a well-attested scribal error.
7 tn Heb “he does not regard human beings.”