Yesaya 21:9
Konteks21:9 Look what’s coming!
A charioteer,
a team of horses.” 1
When questioned, he replies, 2
“Babylon has fallen, fallen!
All the idols of her gods lie shattered on the ground!”
Yesaya 46:1-2
KonteksNebo 4 bends low.
Their images weigh down animals and beasts. 5
Your heavy images are burdensome to tired animals. 6
46:2 Together they bend low and kneel down;
they are unable to rescue the images; 7
[21:9] 1 tn Or “[with] teams of horses,” or perhaps, “with a pair of horsemen.”
[21:9] 2 tn Heb “and he answered and said” (so KJV, ASV).
[46:1] 3 sn Bel was the name of a Babylonian god. The name was originally associated with Enlil, but later was applied to Marduk. See HALOT 132 s.v. בֵּל.
[46:1] 4 sn Nebo is a variation of the name of the Babylonian god Nabu.
[46:1] 5 tn Heb “their images belong to animals and beasts”; NIV “their idols are borne by beasts of burden”; NLT “are being hauled away.”
[46:1] 6 tn Heb “your loads are carried [as] a burden by a weary [animal].”
[46:2] 7 tn Heb “[the] burden,” i.e., their images, the heavy burden carried by the animals.
[46:2] 8 tn נַפְשָׁם (nafsham, “their souls/lives”) is equivalent here to a third masculine plural suffix, but the third feminine singular verb הָלָכָה (halakhah, “they go”) agrees with the feminine noun נֶפֶשׁ (nefesh, “soul, life”).
[46:2] 9 sn The downfall of Babylon is depicted here. The idols are carried off by the victorious enemy; the gods are likened to defeated captives who cower before the enemy and are taken into exile.
