Yesaya 9:16

9:16 The leaders of this nation were misleading people,

and the people being led were destroyed. ¹ 

Yesaya 42:18

The Lord Reasons with His People

42:18 “Listen, you deaf ones!

Take notice, ²  you blind ones!

Yesaya 59:3

59:3 For your hands are stained with blood

and your fingers with sin;

your lips speak lies,

your tongue utters malicious words.

[9:16]  ¹ tn Heb “and the ones being led were swallowed up.” Instead of taking מְבֻלָּעִים (mÿbulla’im) from בָּלַע (bala’, “to swallow”), HALOT 134 s.v. בלע proposes a rare homonymic root בלע (“confuse”) here.

[42:18]  ² tn Heb “look to see”; NAB, NCV “look and see”; NRSV “look up and see.”