Yesaya 14:19
Konteks14:19 But you have been thrown out of your grave
like a shoot that is thrown away. 1
You lie among 2 the slain,
among those who have been slashed by the sword,
among those headed for 3 the stones of the pit, 4
as if you were a mangled corpse. 5
Yesaya 53:5
Konteks53:5 He was wounded because of 6 our rebellious deeds,
crushed because of our sins;
he endured punishment that made us well; 7
because of his wounds we have been healed. 8
[14:19] 1 tn Heb “like a shoot that is abhorred.” The simile seems a bit odd; apparently it refers to a small shoot that is trimmed from a plant and tossed away. Some prefer to emend נֵצֶר (netser, “shoot”); some propose נֵפֶל (nefel, “miscarriage”). In this case one might paraphrase: “like a horrible-looking fetus that is delivered when a woman miscarries.”
[14:19] 2 tn Heb “are clothed with.”
[14:19] 3 tn Heb “those going down to.”
[14:19] 4 tn בּוֹר (bor) literally means “cistern”; cisterns were constructed from stones. On the metaphorical use of “cistern” for the underworld, see the note at v. 15.
[14:19] 5 tn Heb “like a trampled corpse.” Some take this line with what follows.
[53:5] 6 tn The preposition מִן (min) has a causal sense (translated “because of”) here and in the following clause.
[53:5] 7 tn Heb “the punishment of our peace [was] on him.” שָׁלוֹם (shalom, “peace”) is here a genitive of result, i.e., “punishment that resulted in our peace.”
[53:5] 8 sn Continuing to utilize the imagery of physical illness, the group acknowledges that the servant’s willingness to carry their illnesses (v. 4) resulted in their being healed. Healing is a metaphor for forgiveness here.