Yesaya 25:7

25:7 On this mountain he will swallow up

the shroud that is over all the peoples, ¹ 

the woven covering that is over all the nations; ² 

Yesaya 38:11

38:11 “I thought,

‘I will no longer see the Lord ³  in the land of the living,

I will no longer look on humankind with the inhabitants of the world. ⁴ 

[25:7]  ¹ tn The Hebrew text reads, “the face of the shroud, the shroud over all the nations.” Some emend the second הַלּוֹט (hallot) to a passive participle הַלּוּט (hallut, “that is wrapped”).

[25:7]  ² sn The point of the imagery is unclear. Perhaps the shroud/covering referred to was associated with death in some way (see v. 8).

[38:11]  ³ tn The Hebrew text has יָהּ יָהּ (yah yah, the abbreviated form of יְהוָה [yÿhvah] repeated), but this is probably a corruption of יְהוָה.

[38:11]  ⁴ tc The Hebrew text has חָדֶל (khadel), which appears to be derived from a verbal root meaning “to cease, refrain.” But the form has probably suffered an error of transmission; the original form (attested in a few medieval Hebrew mss) was likely חֶלֶד (kheled, “world”).