Yesaya 9:5

9:5 Indeed every boot that marches and shakes the earth ¹ 

and every garment dragged through blood

is used as fuel for the fire.

Yesaya 30:32

30:32 Every blow from his punishing cudgel, ² 

with which the Lord will beat them, ³ 

will be accompanied by music from the ⁴  tambourine and harp,

and he will attack them with his weapons. ⁵ 

Yesaya 57:5

57:5 you who practice ritual sex ⁶  under the oaks and every green tree,

who slaughter children near the streams under the rocky overhangs. ⁷ 

Yesaya 59:8

59:8 They are unfamiliar with peace;

their deeds are unjust. ⁸ 

They use deceitful methods,

and whoever deals with them is unfamiliar with peace. ⁹ 

[9:5]  ¹ tn Heb “Indeed every boot marching with shaking.” On the meaning of סְאוֹן (sÿ’on, “boot”) and the related denominative verb, both of which occur only here, see HALOT 738 s.v. סְאוֹן.

[30:32]  ² tc The Hebrew text has “every blow from a founded [i.e., “appointed”?] cudgel.” The translation above, with support from a few medieval Hebrew mss, assumes an emendation of מוּסָדָה (musadah, “founded”) to מוּסָרֹה (musaroh, “his discipline”).

[30:32]  ³ tn Heb “which the Lord lays on him.”

[30:32]  ⁴ tn Heb “will be with” (KJV similar).

[30:32]  ⁵ tn The Hebrew text reads literally, “and with battles of brandishing [weapons?] he will fight against him.” Some prefer to emend וּבְמִלְחֲמוֹת (uvÿmilkhamot, “and with battles of”) to וּבִמְחֹלוֹת (uvimkholot, “and with dancing”). Note the immediately preceding references to musical instruments.

[57:5]  ⁶ tn Heb “inflame yourselves”; NRSV “burn with lust.” This verse alludes to the practice of ritual sex that accompanied pagan fertility rites.

[57:5]  ⁷ sn This apparently alludes to the practice of child sacrifice (cf. TEV, CEV, NLT).

[59:8]  ⁸ tn Heb “a way of peace they do not know, and there is no justice in their pathways.”

[59:8]  ⁹ tn Heb “their paths they make crooked, everyone who walks in it does not know peace.”