Isaiah 33:2-4

New English Translation

Footnotes

1. Isaiah 33:2 tn Heb “Be their arm each morning.” “Arm” is a symbol for strength. The mem suffixed to the noun has been traditionally understood as a third person suffix, but this is contrary to the context, where the people speak of themselves in the first person. The mem (מ) is probably enclitic with ellipsis of the pronoun, which can be supplied from the context. See J. N. Oswalt, Isaiah (NICOT), 1:589, n. 1.
2. Isaiah 33:2 tn Heb “[Be] also our deliverance in the time of distress.”
3. Isaiah 33:3 tn Heb “at the sound of tumult the nations run away.”
4. Isaiah 33:3 tn Heb “because of your exaltation the nations scatter.”
5. Isaiah 33:4 tn The pronoun is plural; the statement is addressed to the nations who have stockpiled plunder from their conquests of others.
6. Isaiah 33:4 tn Heb “and your plunder is gathered, the gathering of the locust.”
7. Isaiah 33:4 tn Heb “like a swarm of locusts swarming on it.”