Yesaya 3:9

3:9 The look on their faces ¹  testifies to their guilt; ² 

like the people of Sodom they openly boast of their sin. ³ 

Too bad for them! ⁴ 

For they bring disaster on themselves.

Yesaya 33:8

33:8 Highways are empty, ⁵ 

there are no travelers. ⁶ 

Treaties are broken, ⁷ 

witnesses are despised, ⁸ 

human life is treated with disrespect. ⁹ 

[3:9]  ¹ sn This refers to their proud, arrogant demeanor.

[3:9]  ² tn Heb “answers against them”; NRSV “bears witness against them.”

[3:9]  ³ tn Heb “their sin, like Sodom, they declare, they do not conceal [it].”

[3:9]  ⁴ tn Heb “woe to their soul.”

[33:8]  ⁵ tn Or “desolate” (NAB, NASB); NIV, NRSV, NLT “deserted.”

[33:8]  ⁶ tn Heb “the one passing by on the road ceases.”

[33:8]  ⁷ tn Heb “one breaks a treaty”; NAB “Covenants are broken.”

[33:8]  ⁸ tc The Hebrew text reads literally, “he despises cities.” The term עָרִים (’arim, “cities”) is probably a corruption of an original עֵדִים (’edim, “[legal] witnesses”), a reading that is preserved in the Qumran scroll 1QIsa^a. Confusion of dalet (ד) and resh (ר) is a well-attested scribal error.

[33:8]  ⁹ tn Heb “he does not regard human beings.”