Yesaya 30:7

30:7 Egypt is totally incapable of helping. ¹ 

For this reason I call her

‘Proud one ²  who is silenced.’” ³ 

Yesaya 48:2

48:2 Indeed, they live in the holy city; ⁴ 

they trust in ⁵  the God of Israel,

whose name is the Lord who commands armies.

Yesaya 48:13

48:13 Yes, my hand founded the earth;

my right hand spread out the sky.

I summon them;

they stand together.

Yesaya 62:12

62:12 They will be called, “The Holy People,

the Ones Protected ⁶  by the Lord.”

You will be called, “Sought After,

City Not Abandoned.”

[30:7]  ¹ tn Heb “As for Egypt, with vanity and emptiness they help.”

[30:7]  ² tn Heb “Rahab” (רַהַב, rahav), which also appears as a name for Egypt in Ps 87:4. The epithet is also used in the OT for a mythical sea monster symbolic of chaos. See the note at 51:9. A number of English versions use the name “Rahab” (e.g., ASV, NAB, NASB, NIV, NRSV) while others attempt some sort of translation (cf. CEV “a helpless monster”; TEV, NLT “the Harmless Dragon”).

[30:7]  ³ tn The MT reads “Rahab, they, sitting.” The translation above assumes an emendation of הֵם שָׁבֶת (hem shavet) to הַמָּשְׁבָּת (hammashbat), a Hophal participle with prefixed definite article, meaning “the one who is made to cease,” i.e., “destroyed,” or “silenced.” See HALOT 444-45 s.v. ישׁב.

[48:2]  ⁴ tn Heb “they call themselves [or “are called”] from the holy city.” The precise meaning of the statement is uncertain. The Niphal of קָרָא (qara’) is combined with the preposition מִן (min) only here. When the Qal of קָרָא is used with מִן, the preposition often indicates the place from which one is summoned (see 46:11). So one could translate, “from the holy city they are summoned,” meaning that they reside there.

[48:2]  ⁵ tn Heb “lean on” (so NASB, NRSV); NAB, NIV “rely on.”

[62:12]  ⁶ tn Or “the redeemed of the Lord” (KJV, NAB).