13:15 Everyone who is caught will be stabbed;
everyone who is seized 2 will die 3 by the sword.
33:4 Your plunder 4 disappears as if locusts were eating it; 5
they swarm over it like locusts! 6
45:15 Yes, you are a God who keeps hidden,
O God of Israel, deliverer!
1 tn This sentence opens with the conjunction יַעַן כִּי (ya’an ki, “because”). Consequently some take vv. 5-6 with what precedes, as another reason why Ahaz might be tempted to fear (see v. 4). However, it is more likely that vv. 5-6 give the basis for the Lord’s announcement in vv. 7-9. The conjunction יַעַן כִּי here introduces the basis for judgment (as in 3:16; 8:6; 29:13), which is then followed by the formal announcement of judgment.
2 tn Heb “carried off,” i.e., grabbed from the fleeing crowd. See HALOT 764 s.v. ספה.
3 tn Heb “will fall” (so KJV, NIV, NRSV); NLT “will be run through with a sword.”
4 tn The pronoun is plural; the statement is addressed to the nations who have stockpiled plunder from their conquests of others.
5 tn Heb “and your plunder is gathered, the gathering of the locust.”
6 tn Heb “like a swarm of locusts swarming on it.”