Yesaya 14:2

14:2 Nations will take them and bring them back to their own place. Then the family of Jacob will make foreigners their servants as they settle in the Lord’s land. ¹  They will make their captors captives and rule over the ones who oppressed them.

Yesaya 28:2

28:2 Look, the sovereign master ²  sends a strong, powerful one. ³ 

With the force of a hailstorm or a destructive windstorm, ⁴ 

with the might of a driving, torrential rainstorm, ⁵ 

he will knock that crown ⁶  to the ground with his hand. ⁷ 

¹ tn Heb “and the house of Jacob will take possession of them [i.e., the nations], on the land of the Lord, as male servants and female servants.”

² tn The Hebrew term translated “sovereign master” here and in vv. 16, 22 is אֲדֹנָי (’adonay).

³ tn Heb “Look, a strong and powerful [one] belongs to the Lord.”

⁴ tn Heb “like a rainstorm of hail, a wind of destruction.”

⁵ tn Heb “like a rainstorm of mighty, overflowing waters.”

⁶ tn The words “that crown” are supplied in the translation for clarification. The object of the verb is unexpressed in the Hebrew text.

⁷ tn Or “by [his] power.”