Isaiah 32:18-20
New English Translation
18 My people will live in peaceful settlements,
in secure homes,
and in safe, quiet places.[a]
19 Even if the forest is destroyed[b]
and the city is annihilated,[c]
20 you will be blessed,
you who plant seed by all the banks of the streams,[d]
you who let your ox and donkey graze.[e]
Footnotes
- Isaiah 32:18 tn Or “in safe resting places”; NAB, NRSV “quiet resting places.”
- Isaiah 32:19 tn Heb “and [?] when the forest descends.” The form וּבָרַד (uvarad) is often understood as an otherwise unattested denominative verb meaning “to hail” (HALOT 154 s.v. I ברד). In this case one might translate, “and it hails when the forest is destroyed” (cf. KJV, ASV, NASB, NIV). Perhaps the text alludes to a powerful wind and hail storm that knocks down limbs and trees. Some prefer to emend the form to וְיָרַד (veyarad), “and it descends,” which provides better, though not perfect, symmetry with the parallel line (cf. NAB). Perhaps וּבָרַד should be dismissed as dittographic. In this case the statement (“when the forest descends”) lacks a finite verb and seems incomplete, but perhaps it is subordinate to v. 20.
- Isaiah 32:19 tn Heb “and in humiliation the city is laid low.”
- Isaiah 32:20 tn Heb “by all the waters.”
- Isaiah 32:20 tn Heb “who set free the foot of the ox and donkey”; NIV “letting your cattle and donkeys range free.”sn This verse seems to anticipate a time when fertile land is available to cultivate and crops are so abundant that the farm animals can be allowed to graze freely.
Isaiah 32:18-20
New International Version
18 My people will live in peaceful(A) dwelling places,
in secure homes,(B)
in undisturbed places of rest.(C)
19 Though hail(D) flattens the forest(E)
and the city is leveled(F) completely,
20 how blessed you will be,
sowing(G) your seed by every stream,(H)
and letting your cattle and donkeys range free.(I)
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