Yesaya 25:11

25:11 Moab ¹  will spread out its hands in the middle of it, ² 

just as a swimmer spreads his hands to swim;

the Lord ³  will bring down Moab’s ⁴  pride as it spreads its hands. ⁵ 

Yesaya 49:19

49:19 Yes, your land lies in ruins;

it is desolate and devastated. ⁶ 

But now you will be too small to hold your residents,

and those who devoured you will be far away.

Yesaya 65:23

65:23 They will not work in vain,

or give birth to children that will experience disaster. ⁷ 

For the Lord will bless their children

and their descendants. ⁸ 

[25:11]  ¹ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Moab) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[25:11]  ² tn The antecedent of the third masculine singular pronominal suffix is probably the masculine noun מַתְבֵּן (matben, “heap of straw”) in v. 10 rather than the feminine noun מַדְמֵנָה (madmenah, “manure pile”), also in v. 10.

[25:11]  ³ tn Heb “he”; the referent (the Lord) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[25:11]  ⁴ tn Heb “his”; the referent (Moab) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[25:11]  ⁵ tn The Hebrew text has, “he will bring down his pride along with the [?] of his hands.” The meaning of אָרְבּוֹת (’arbot), which occurs only here in the OT, is unknown. Some (see BDB 70 s.v. אָרְבָּה) translate “artifice, cleverness,” relating the form to the verbal root אָרָב (’arav, “to lie in wait, ambush”), but this requires some convoluted semantic reasoning. HALOT 83 s.v. *אָרְבָּה suggests the meaning “[nimble] movements.” The translation above, which attempts to relate the form to the preceding context, is purely speculative.

[49:19]  ⁶ tn Heb “Indeed your ruins and your desolate places, and the land of your destruction.” This statement is abruptly terminated in the Hebrew text and left incomplete.

[65:23]  ⁷ tn Heb “and they will not give birth to horror.”

[65:23]  ⁸ tn Heb “for offspring blessed by the Lord they [will be], and their descendants along with them.”