Yesaya 24:7

24:7 The new wine dries up,

the vines shrivel up,

all those who like to celebrate ¹  groan.

Yesaya 38:13

38:13 I cry out ²  until morning;

like a lion he shatters all my bones;

you turn day into night and end my life. ³ 

Yesaya 40:27

40:27 Why do you say, Jacob,

Why do you say, Israel,

“The Lord is not aware of what is happening to me, ⁴ 

My God is not concerned with my vindication”? ⁵ 

[24:7]  ¹ tn The Hebrew text reads literally, “all the joyful in heart,” but the context specifies the context as parties and drinking bouts.

[38:13]  ² tn The verb form in the Hebrew text is a Piel from שָׁוַה (shavah). There are two homonyms שָׁוַה, one meaning in the Piel “level, smooth out,” the other “set, place.” Neither fits in v. 13. It is likely that the original reading was שִׁוַּעְתִּי (shivva’ti, “I cry out”) from the verbal root שָׁוַע (shava’), which occurs exclusively in the Piel.

[38:13]  ³ tn Heb “from day to night you bring me to an end.”

[40:27]  ⁴ tn Heb “my way is hidden from the Lord” (so NAB, NASB, NIV, NRSV).

[40:27]  ⁵ tn Heb “and from my God my justice passes away”; NRSV “my right is disregarded by my God.”