Yesaya 23:13
Konteks23:13 Look at the land of the Chaldeans,
these people who have lost their identity! 1
The Assyrians have made it a home for wild animals.
They erected their siege towers, 2
demolished 3 its fortresses,
and turned it into a heap of ruins. 4
Yesaya 37:12
Konteks37:12 Were the nations whom my predecessors 5 destroyed – the nations of Gozan, Haran, Rezeph, and the people of Eden in Telassar – rescued by their gods? 6
Yesaya 48:19
Konteks48:19 Your descendants would have been as numerous as sand, 7
and your children 8 like its granules.
Their name would not have been cut off
and eliminated from my presence. 9
[23:13] 1 tn Heb “this people [that] is not.”
[23:13] 2 tn For the meaning of this word, see HALOT 118 s.v. *בַּחוּן.
[23:13] 3 tn Or “laid bare.” For the meaning of this word, see HALOT 889 s.v. ערר.
[23:13] 4 sn This verse probably refers to the Assyrian destruction of Babylon.
[37:12] 5 tn Heb “fathers” (so KJV, NAB, NASB); NIV “forefathers”; NCV “ancestors.”
[37:12] 6 tn Heb “Did the gods of the nations whom my fathers destroyed rescue them – Gozan and Haran, and Rezeph and the sons of Eden who are in Telassar?”
[48:19] 7 tn Heb “like sand”; NCV “as many as the grains of sand.”
[48:19] 8 tn Heb “and the issue from your inner parts.”
[48:19] 9 tn Heb “and his name would not be cut off and would not be destroyed from before me.”