Yesaya 30:3

30:3 But Pharaoh’s protection will bring you nothing but shame,

and the safety of Egypt’s protective shade nothing but humiliation.

Yesaya 30:7

30:7 Egypt is totally incapable of helping. ¹ 

For this reason I call her

‘Proud one ²  who is silenced.’” ³ 

Yesaya 37:35

37:35 I will shield this city and rescue it for the sake of my reputation and because of my promise to David my servant.”’” ⁴ 

Yesaya 40:5

40:5 The splendor ⁵  of the Lord will be revealed,

and all people ⁶  will see it at the same time.

For ⁷  the Lord has decreed it.” ⁸ 

[30:7]  ¹ tn Heb “As for Egypt, with vanity and emptiness they help.”

[30:7]  ² tn Heb “Rahab” (רַהַב, rahav), which also appears as a name for Egypt in Ps 87:4. The epithet is also used in the OT for a mythical sea monster symbolic of chaos. See the note at 51:9. A number of English versions use the name “Rahab” (e.g., ASV, NAB, NASB, NIV, NRSV) while others attempt some sort of translation (cf. CEV “a helpless monster”; TEV, NLT “the Harmless Dragon”).

[30:7]  ³ tn The MT reads “Rahab, they, sitting.” The translation above assumes an emendation of הֵם שָׁבֶת (hem shavet) to הַמָּשְׁבָּת (hammashbat), a Hophal participle with prefixed definite article, meaning “the one who is made to cease,” i.e., “destroyed,” or “silenced.” See HALOT 444-45 s.v. ישׁב.

[37:35]  ⁴ tn Heb “for my sake and for the sake of David my servant.”

[40:5]  ⁵ tn Or “glory.” The Lord’s “glory” is his theophanic radiance and royal splendor (see Isa 6:3; 24:23; 35:2; 60:1; 66:18-19).

[40:5]  ⁶ tn Heb “flesh” (so KJV, ASV, NASB); NAB, NIV “mankind”; TEV “the whole human race.”

[40:5]  ⁷ tn Or “indeed.”

[40:5]  ⁸ tn Heb “the mouth of the Lord has spoken” (so NASB, NIV, NRSV).