Isaiah 33:6-8

New English Translation

Footnotes

1. Isaiah 33:6 tn Heb “and he is the stability of your times.”
2. Isaiah 33:6 tn Heb “a rich store of deliverance, wisdom, and knowledge.”
3. Isaiah 33:6 tn Heb “the fear of the Lord, it is his treasure.”
4. Isaiah 33:7 tn The meaning of the Hebrew word is unknown. Proposals include “heroes” (cf. KJV, ASV “valiant ones”; NASB, NIV “brave men”); “priests,” “residents [of Jerusalem].” The present translation assumes that the term is synonymous with “messengers of peace,” with which it corresponds in the parallel structure of the verse.
5. Isaiah 33:7 tn Heb “messengers of peace,” apparently those responsible for negotiating the agreements that have been broken (see v. 8).
6. Isaiah 33:8 tn Or “desolate” (NAB, NASB); NIV, NRSV, NLT “deserted.”
7. Isaiah 33:8 tn Heb “the one passing by on the road ceases.”
8. Isaiah 33:8 tn Heb “one breaks a treaty”; NAB “Covenants are broken.”
9. Isaiah 33:8 tc The Hebrew text reads literally, “he despises cities.” The term עָרִים (ʿarim, “cities”) probably needs to be emended to an original עֵדִים (ʿedim, “[legal] witnesses”), a reading that is preserved in the Qumran scroll 1QIsa^a. Confusion of dalet (ד) and resh (ר) is a well-attested scribal error.
10. Isaiah 33:8 tn Heb “he does not regard human beings.”