Yesaya 7:5

7:5 Syria has plotted with Ephraim and the son of Remaliah to bring about your demise. ¹ 

Yesaya 13:15

13:15 Everyone who is caught will be stabbed;

everyone who is seized ²  will die ³  by the sword.

Yesaya 33:4

33:4 Your plunder ⁴  disappears as if locusts were eating it; ⁵ 

they swarm over it like locusts! ⁶ 

Yesaya 45:15

45:15 Yes, you are a God who keeps hidden,

O God of Israel, deliverer!

[7:5]  ¹ tn This sentence opens with the conjunction יַעַן כִּי (ya’an ki, “because”). Consequently some take vv. 5-6 with what precedes, as another reason why Ahaz might be tempted to fear (see v. 4). However, it is more likely that vv. 5-6 give the basis for the Lord’s announcement in vv. 7-9. The conjunction יַעַן כִּי here introduces the basis for judgment (as in 3:16; 8:6; 29:13), which is then followed by the formal announcement of judgment.

[13:15]  ² tn Heb “carried off,” i.e., grabbed from the fleeing crowd. See HALOT 764 s.v. ספה.

[13:15]  ³ tn Heb “will fall” (so KJV, NIV, NRSV); NLT “will be run through with a sword.”

[33:4]  ⁴ tn The pronoun is plural; the statement is addressed to the nations who have stockpiled plunder from their conquests of others.

[33:4]  ⁵ tn Heb “and your plunder is gathered, the gathering of the locust.”

[33:4]  ⁶ tn Heb “like a swarm of locusts swarming on it.”