Yesaya 3:1

A Coming Leadership Crisis

3:1 Look, the sovereign Lord who commands armies ¹ 

is about to remove from Jerusalem ²  and Judah

every source of security, including ³ 

all the food and water, ⁴ 

Yesaya 38:12

38:12 My dwelling place ⁵  is removed and taken away ⁶  from me

like a shepherd’s tent.

I rolled up my life like a weaver rolls cloth; ⁷ 

from the loom he cuts me off. ⁸ 

You turn day into night and end my life. ⁹ 

Yesaya 43:13

43:13 From this day forward I am he;

no one can deliver from my power; ¹⁰ 

I will act, and who can prevent it?”

[3:1]  ¹ tn Heb “the master, the Lord who commands armies [traditionally, the Lord of hosts].” On the title “the Lord who commands armies,” see the note at 1:9.

[3:1]  ² map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

[3:1]  ³ tn Heb “support and support.” The masculine and feminine forms of the noun are placed side-by-side to emphasize completeness. See GKC 394 §122.v.

[3:1]  ⁴ tn Heb “all the support of food, and all the support of water.”

[38:12]  ⁵ tn According to HALOT 217 s.v. דּוֹר this noun is a hapax legomenon meaning “dwelling place,” derived from a verbal root meaning “live” (see Ps 84:10). For an interpretation that understands the form as the well-attested noun meaning “generation,” see J. N. Oswalt, Isaiah (NICOT), 1:679, n. 4.

[38:12]  ⁶ tn The verb form appears to be a Niphal from גָּלָה (galah), which normally means “uncovered, revealed” in the Niphal. Because of the following reference to a shepherd’s tent, some prefer to emend the form to וְנָגַל, a Niphal from גָלָל (galal, “roll”) and translate “is rolled [or “folded”] up.”

[38:12]  ⁷ tn Heb “I rolled up, like a weaver, my life” (so ASV).

[38:12]  ⁸ sn For a discussion of the imagery employed here, see J. N. Oswalt, Isaiah (NICOT), 1:684.

[38:12]  ⁹ tn Heb “from day to night you bring me to an end.”

[43:13]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “hand” (so KJV, NASB, NIV, NRSV); NLT “No one can oppose what I do.”