Yesaya 37:9

37:9 The king ¹  heard that King Tirhakah of Ethiopia ²  was marching out to fight him. ³  He again sent ⁴  messengers to Hezekiah, ordering them:

Yesaya 37:36

37:36 The Lord’s messenger ⁵  went out and killed 185,000 troops ⁶  in the Assyrian camp. When they ⁷  got up early the next morning, there were all the corpses! ⁸ 

Yesaya 48:20

48:20 Leave Babylon!

Flee from the Babylonians!

Announce it with a shout of joy!

Make this known!

Proclaim it throughout the earth! ⁹ 

Say, ‘The Lord protects ¹⁰  his servant Jacob.

Yesaya 52:12

52:12 Yet do not depart quickly

or leave in a panic. ¹¹ 

For the Lord goes before you;

the God of Israel is your rear guard.

[37:9]  ¹ tn Heb “he”; the referent (the king) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[37:9]  ² tn Heb “Cush” (so NASB); NIV, NCV “the Cushite king of Egypt.”

[37:9]  ³ tn Heb “heard concerning Tirhakah king of Cush, ‘He has come out to fight with you.’”

[37:9]  ⁴ tn The Hebrew text has, “and he heard and he sent,” but the parallel in 2 Kgs 19:9 has וַיָּשָׁב וַיִּשְׁלַח (vayyashav vayyishlakh, “and he returned and he sent”), i.e., “he again sent.”

[37:36]  ⁵ tn Traditionally, “the angel of the Lord” (so NASB, NIV, NRSV, NLT).

[37:36]  ⁶ tn The word “troops” is supplied in the translation for smoothness and clarity.

[37:36]  ⁷ tn This refers to the Israelites and/or the rest of the Assyrian army.

[37:36]  ⁸ tn Heb “look, all of them were dead bodies”; NLT “they found corpses everywhere.”

[48:20]  ⁹ tn Heb “to the end of the earth” (so KJV, NASB, NRSV).

[48:20]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “redeems.” See the note at 41:14.

[52:12]  ¹¹ tn Heb “or go in flight”; NAB “leave in headlong flight.”