Yesaya 14:15

14:15 But you were brought down ¹  to Sheol,

to the remote slopes of the pit. ² 

Yesaya 38:17

38:17 “Look, the grief I experienced was for my benefit. ³ 

You delivered me ⁴  from the pit of oblivion. ⁵ 

For you removed all my sins from your sight. ⁶ 

[14:15]  ¹ tn The prefixed verb form is taken as a preterite. Note the use of perfects in v. 12 to describe the king’s downfall.

[14:15]  ² tn The Hebrew term בּוּר (bor, “cistern”) is sometimes used metaphorically to refer to the place of the dead or the entrance to the underworld.

[38:17]  ³ tn Heb “Look, for peace bitterness was to me bitter”; NAB “thus is my bitterness transformed into peace.”

[38:17]  ⁴ tc The Hebrew text reads, “you loved my soul,” but this does not fit syntactically with the following prepositional phrase. חָשַׁקְתָּ (khashaqta, “you loved”), may reflect an aural error; most emend the form to חָשַׂכְת, (khasakht, “you held back”).

[38:17]  ⁵ tn בְּלִי (bÿli) most often appears as a negation, meaning “without,” suggesting the meaning “nothingness, oblivion,” here. Some translate “decay” or “destruction.”

[38:17]  ⁶ tn Heb “for you threw behind your back all my sins.”