Yesaya 17:4

17:4 “At that time ¹ 

Jacob’s splendor will be greatly diminished, ² 

and he will become skin and bones. ³ 

Yesaya 21:16

21:16 For this is what the sovereign master ⁴  has told me: “Within exactly one year ⁵  all the splendor of Kedar will come to an end.

Hosea 9:11

The Fertility Worshipers Will Become Infertile

9:11 Ephraim will be like a bird;

what they value ⁶  will fly away.

They will not bear children –

they will not enjoy pregnancy –

they will not even conceive! ⁷ 

[17:4]  ¹ tn Heb “in that day” (so KJV). The verb that introduces this verse serves as a discourse particle and is untranslated; see note on “in the future” in 2:2.

[17:4]  ² tn Heb “will be tiny.”

[17:4]  ³ tn Heb “and the fatness of his flesh will be made lean.”

[21:16]  ⁴ tn The Hebrew term translated “sovereign master” here is אֲדֹנָי (’adonay).

[21:16]  ⁵ tn Heb “in still a year, like the years of a hired worker.” See the note at 16:14.

[9:11]  ⁶ tn Heb “their glory” (so NASB); TEV “Israel’s greateness.”

[9:11]  ⁷ tn Heb “no childbearing, no pregnancy, no conception.” The preposition מִן (min) prefixed to the three parallel nouns functions in a privative sense, indicating deprivation (BDB 583 s.v. מִן 7).