Yesaya 36:13

36:13 The chief adviser then stood there and called out loudly in the Judahite dialect, ¹  “Listen to the message of the great king, the king of Assyria.

Yesaya 37:14

37:14 Hezekiah took the letter ²  from the messengers and read it. ³  Then Hezekiah went up to the Lord’s temple and spread it out before the Lord.

Yesaya 48:12

48:12 Listen to me, O Jacob,

Israel, whom I summoned!

I am the one;

I am present at the very beginning

and at the very end. ⁴ 

[36:13]  ¹ tn The Hebrew text includes “and he said.”

[37:14]  ² tc The Hebrew text has the plural, “letters.” The final mem (ם) may be dittographic (note the initial mem on the form that immediately follows). Some Greek and Aramaic witnesses have the singular. If so, one still has to deal with the yod that is part of the plural ending. J. N. Oswalt refers to various commentators who have suggested ways to understand the plural form (Isaiah [NICOT], 1:652).

[37:14]  ³ tn In the parallel text in 2 Kgs 19:14 the verb has the plural suffix, “them,” but this probably reflects a later harmonization to the preceding textual corruption (of “letter” to “letters”).

[48:12]  ⁴ tn Heb “I [am] he, I [am the] first, also I [am the] last.”