Yesaya 9:18
Konteks9:18 For 1 evil burned like a fire, 2
it consumed thorns and briers;
it burned up the thickets of the forest,
and they went up in smoke. 3
Yesaya 34:10
Konteks34:10 Night and day it will burn; 4
its smoke will ascend continually.
Generation after generation it will be a wasteland
and no one will ever pass through it again.
[9:18] 1 tn Or “Indeed” (cf. NIV “Surely”). The verb that introduces this verse serves as a discourse particle and is untranslated; see note on “in the future” in 2:2.
[9:18] 2 sn Evil was uncontrollable and destructive, and so can be compared to a forest fire.
[9:18] 3 tn Heb “and they swirled [with] the rising of the smoke” (cf. NRSV).