Yesaya 14:11

14:11 Your splendor ¹  has been brought down to Sheol,

as well as the sound of your stringed instruments. ² 

You lie on a bed of maggots,

with a blanket of worms over you. ³ 

Yesaya 22:2

22:2 The noisy city is full of raucous sounds;

the town is filled with revelry. ⁴ 

Your slain were not cut down by the sword;

they did not die in battle. ⁵ 

Yesaya 23:7

23:7 Is this really your boisterous city ⁶ 

whose origins are in the distant past, ⁷ 

and whose feet led her to a distant land to reside?

Yesaya 23:16

23:16 “Take the harp,

go through the city,

forgotten prostitute!

Play it well,

play lots of songs,

so you’ll be noticed!” ⁸ 

Yesaya 24:8-9

24:8 The happy sound ⁹  of the tambourines stops,

the revelry of those who celebrate comes to a halt,

the happy sound of the harp ceases.

24:9 They no longer sing and drink wine; ¹⁰ 

the beer tastes bitter to those who drink it.

[14:11]  ¹ tn Or “pride” (NCV, CEV); KJV, NIV, NRSV “pomp.”

[14:11]  ² tn Or “harps” (NAB, NIV, NRSV).

[14:11]  ³ tn Heb “under you maggots are spread out, and worms are your cover.”

[22:2]  ⁴ tn Heb “the boisterous town.” The phrase is parallel to “the noisy city” in the preceding line.

[22:2]  ⁵ sn Apparently they died from starvation during the siege that preceded the final conquest of the city. See J. N. Oswalt, Isaiah (NICOT), 1:409.

[23:7]  ⁶ tn Heb “Is this to you, boisterous one?” The pronoun “you” is masculine plural, like the imperatives in v. 6, so it is likely addressed to the Egyptians and residents of the coast. “Boisterous one” is a feminine singular form, probably referring to the personified city of Tyre.

[23:7]  ⁷ tn Heb “in the days of antiquity [is] her beginning.”

[23:16]  ⁸ tn Heb “so you will be remembered.”

[24:8]  ⁹ tn Heb “the joy” (again later in this verse).

[24:9]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “with a song they do not drink wine.”