Yesaya 9:16

9:16 The leaders of this nation were misleading people,

and the people being led were destroyed. ¹ 

Yesaya 13:18

13:18 Their arrows will cut young men to ribbons; ² 

they have no compassion on a person’s offspring, ³ 

they will not ⁴  look with pity on children.

[9:16]  ¹ tn Heb “and the ones being led were swallowed up.” Instead of taking מְבֻלָּעִים (mÿbulla’im) from בָּלַע (bala’, “to swallow”), HALOT 134 s.v. בלע proposes a rare homonymic root בלע (“confuse”) here.

[13:18]  ² tn Heb “and bows cut to bits young men.” “Bows” stands by metonymy for arrows.

[13:18]  ³ tn Heb “the fruit of the womb.”

[13:18]  ⁴ tn Heb “their eye does not.” Here “eye” is a metonymy for the whole person.