Yesaya 10:5
Konteks10:5 Assyria, the club I use to vent my anger, is as good as dead, 1
a cudgel with which I angrily punish. 2
Yesaya 39:7
Konteks39:7 ‘Some of your very own descendants whom you father 3 will be taken away and will be made eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.’”
Yesaya 51:14
Konteks51:14 The one who suffers 4 will soon be released;
he will not die in prison, 5
he will not go hungry. 6
Yesaya 52:2
KonteksGet up, captive 8 Jerusalem!
Take off the iron chains around your neck,
O captive daughter Zion!
[10:5] 1 tn Heb “Woe [to] Assyria, the club of my anger.” On הוֹי (hoy, “woe, ah”) see the note on the first phrase of 1:4.
[10:5] 2 tn Heb “a cudgel is he, in their hand is my anger.” It seems likely that the final mem (ם) on בְיָדָם (bÿyadam) is not a pronominal suffix (“in their hand”), but an enclitic mem. If so, one can translate literally, “a cudgel is he in the hand of my anger.”
[39:7] 3 tn Heb “Some of your sons, who go out from you, whom you father.”
[51:14] 4 tn Heb “who is stooped over” (under a burden).
[51:14] 5 tn Heb “the pit” (so KJV); ASV, NAB “die and go down into the pit”; NASB, NIV “dungeon”; NCV “prison.”
[51:14] 6 tn Heb “he will not lack his bread.”
[52:2] 7 tn Heb “Shake yourself free from the dirt.”
[52:2] 8 tc The Hebrew text has שְּׂבִי (shÿvi), which some understand as a feminine singular imperative from יָשַׁב (yashav, “sit”). The LXX, Vulgate, Syriac, and the Targum support the MT reading (the Qumran scroll 1QIsaa does indirectly). Some interpret this to mean “take your throne”: The Lord exhorts Jerusalem to get up from the dirt and sit, probably with the idea of sitting in a place of honor (J. N. Oswalt, Isaiah [NICOT], 2:361). However, the form is likely a corruption of שְׁבִיָּה (shÿviyyah, “captive”), which appears in the parallel line.
