Yesaya 10:6

10:6 I sent him ¹  against a godless ²  nation,

I ordered him to attack the people with whom I was angry, ³ 

to take plunder and to carry away loot,

to trample them down ⁴  like dirt in the streets.

Yesaya 28:27

28:27 Certainly ⁵  caraway seed is not threshed with a sledge,

nor is the wheel of a cart rolled over cumin seed. ⁶ 

Certainly caraway seed is beaten with a stick,

and cumin seed with a flail.

Yesaya 34:10

34:10 Night and day it will burn; ⁷ 

its smoke will ascend continually.

Generation after generation it will be a wasteland

and no one will ever pass through it again.

Yesaya 54:16

54:16 Look, I create the craftsman,

who fans the coals into a fire

and forges a weapon. ⁸ 

I create the destroyer so he might devastate.

[10:6]  ¹ sn Throughout this section singular forms are used to refer to Assyria; perhaps the king of Assyria is in view (see v. 12).

[10:6]  ² tn Or “defiled”; cf. ASV “profane”; NAB “impious”; NCV “separated from God.”

[10:6]  ³ tn Heb “and against the people of my anger I ordered him.”

[10:6]  ⁴ tn Heb “to make it [i.e., the people] a trampled place.”

[28:27]  ⁵ tn Or “For” (KJV, ASV, NASB).

[28:27]  ⁶ sn Both of these seeds are too small to use the ordinary threshing techniques.

[34:10]  ⁷ tn Heb “it will not be extinguished.”

[54:16]  ⁸ tn Heb “who brings out an implement for his work.”