Yesaya 38:3
Konteks38:3 “Please, Lord. Remember how I have served you 1 faithfully and with wholehearted devotion, 2 and how I have carried out your will.” 3 Then Hezekiah wept bitterly. 4
Yesaya 41:22
Konteks41:22 “Let them produce evidence! Let them tell us what will happen!
Tell us about your earlier predictive oracles, 5
so we may examine them 6 and see how they were fulfilled. 7
Or decree for us some future events!
Yesaya 52:7
Konteks52:7 How delightful it is to see approaching over the mountains 8
the feet of a messenger who announces peace,
a messenger who brings good news, who announces deliverance,
who says to Zion, “Your God reigns!” 9
Yesaya 59:13
Konteks59:13 We have rebelled and tried to deceive the Lord;
we turned back from following our God.
We stir up 10 oppression and rebellion;
we tell lies we concocted in our minds. 11
[38:3] 1 tn Heb “walked before you.” For a helpful discussion of the background and meaning of this Hebrew idiom, see M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 254.
[38:3] 2 tn Heb “and with a complete heart”; KJV, ASV “with a perfect heart.”
[38:3] 3 tn Heb “and that which is good in your eyes I have done.”
[38:3] 4 tn Heb “wept with great weeping”; NCV “cried loudly”; TEV “began to cry bitterly.”
[41:22] 5 tn Heb “As for the former things, tell us what they are!”
[41:22] 6 tn Heb “so we might set [them to] our heart.”
[41:22] 7 tn Heb “and might know their outcome.”
[52:7] 8 tn Heb “How delightful on the mountains.”
[52:7] 9 tn Or “has become king.” When a new king was enthroned, his followers would give this shout. For other examples of this enthronement formula (Qal perfect 3rd person masculine singular מָלַךְ [malakh], followed by the name of the king), see 2 Sam 15:10; 1 Kgs 1:11, 13, 18; 2 Kgs 9:13. The Lord is an eternal king, but here he is pictured as a victorious warrior who establishes his rule from Zion.
[59:13] 10 tn Heb “speaking.” A new sentence was started here in the translation for stylistic reasons.
[59:13] 11 tn Heb “conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.”