Yesaya 14:8

14:8 The evergreens also rejoice over your demise, ¹ 

as do the cedars of Lebanon, singing, ² 

‘Since you fell asleep, ³ 

no woodsman comes up to chop us down!’ ⁴ 

Yesaya 32:10

32:10 In a year’s time ⁵ 

you carefree ones will shake with fear,

for the grape ⁶  harvest will fail,

and the fruit harvest will not arrive.

Yesaya 33:8

33:8 Highways are empty, ⁷ 

there are no travelers. ⁸ 

Treaties are broken, ⁹ 

witnesses are despised, ¹⁰ 

human life is treated with disrespect. ¹¹ 

Yesaya 62:11

62:11 Look, the Lord announces to the entire earth: ¹² 

“Say to Daughter Zion,

‘Look, your deliverer comes!

Look, his reward is with him

and his reward goes before him!’” ¹³ 

[14:8]  ¹ tn Heb “concerning you.”

[14:8]  ² tn The word “singing” is supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons. Note that the personified trees speak in the second half of the verse.

[14:8]  ³ tn Heb “lay down” (in death); cf. NAB “laid to rest.”

[14:8]  ⁴ tn Heb “the [wood]cutter does not come up against us.”

[32:10]  ⁵ tn Heb “days upon a year.”

[32:10]  ⁶ tn Or perhaps, “olive.” See 24:13.

[33:8]  ⁷ tn Or “desolate” (NAB, NASB); NIV, NRSV, NLT “deserted.”

[33:8]  ⁸ tn Heb “the one passing by on the road ceases.”

[33:8]  ⁹ tn Heb “one breaks a treaty”; NAB “Covenants are broken.”

[33:8]  ¹⁰ tc The Hebrew text reads literally, “he despises cities.” The term עָרִים (’arim, “cities”) is probably a corruption of an original עֵדִים (’edim, “[legal] witnesses”), a reading that is preserved in the Qumran scroll 1QIsa^a. Confusion of dalet (ד) and resh (ר) is a well-attested scribal error.

[33:8]  ¹¹ tn Heb “he does not regard human beings.”

[62:11]  ¹² tn Heb “to the end of the earth” (so NASB, NRSV).

[62:11]  ¹³ sn As v. 12 indicates, the returning exiles are the Lord’s reward/prize. See also 40:10 and the note there.