Yesaya 10:3

10:3 What will you do on judgment day, ¹ 

when destruction arrives from a distant place?

To whom will you run for help?

Where will you leave your wealth?

Yesaya 14:15

14:15 But you were brought down ²  to Sheol,

to the remote slopes of the pit. ³ 

Yesaya 21:9

21:9 Look what’s coming!

A charioteer,

a team of horses.” ⁴ 

When questioned, he replies, ⁵ 

“Babylon has fallen, fallen!

All the idols of her gods lie shattered on the ground!”

Yesaya 31:2

31:2 Yet he too is wise ⁶  and he will bring disaster;

he does not retract his decree. ⁷ 

He will attack the wicked nation, ⁸ 

and the nation that helps ⁹  those who commit sin. ¹⁰ 

Lukas 17:27

17:27 People ¹¹  were eating, ¹²  they were drinking, they were marrying, they were being given in marriage – right up to the day Noah entered the ark. Then ¹³  the flood came and destroyed them all. ¹⁴ 

[10:3]  ¹ tn Heb “the day of visitation” (so KJV, ASV), that is, the day when God arrives to execute justice on the oppressors.

[14:15]  ² tn The prefixed verb form is taken as a preterite. Note the use of perfects in v. 12 to describe the king’s downfall.

[14:15]  ³ tn The Hebrew term בּוּר (bor, “cistern”) is sometimes used metaphorically to refer to the place of the dead or the entrance to the underworld.

[21:9]  ⁴ tn Or “[with] teams of horses,” or perhaps, “with a pair of horsemen.”

[21:9]  ⁵ tn Heb “and he answered and said” (so KJV, ASV).

[31:2]  ⁶ sn This statement appears to have a sarcastic tone. The royal advisers who are advocating an alliance with Egypt think they are wise, but the Lord possesses wisdom as well and will thwart their efforts.

[31:2]  ⁷ tn Heb “and he does not turn aside [i.e., “retract”] his words”; NIV “does not take back his words.”

[31:2]  ⁸ tn Heb “and he will arise against the house of the wicked.”

[31:2]  ⁹ sn That is, Egypt.

[31:2]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “and against the help of the doers of sin.”

[17:27]  ¹¹ tn Grk “They.” The plural in Greek is indefinite, referring to people in general.

[17:27]  ¹² tn These verbs (“eating… drinking… marrying… being given in marriage”) are all progressive imperfects, describing action in progress at that time.

[17:27]  ¹³ tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “then” to indicate the implied sequence of events within the narrative.

[17:27]  ¹⁴ sn Like that flood came and destroyed them all, the coming judgment associated with the Son of Man will condemn many.