Yesaya 33:8

33:8 Highways are empty, ¹ 

there are no travelers. ² 

Treaties are broken, ³ 

witnesses are despised, ⁴ 

human life is treated with disrespect. ⁵ 

Yesaya 51:19

51:19 These double disasters confronted you.

But who feels sorry for you?

Destruction and devastation,

famine and sword.

But who consoles you? ⁶ 

Yesaya 59:7

59:7 They are eager to do evil, ⁷ 

quick to shed innocent blood. ⁸ 

Their thoughts are sinful;

they crush and destroy. ⁹ 

Yesaya 60:18

60:18 Sounds of violence ¹⁰  will no longer be heard in your land,

or the sounds of ¹¹  destruction and devastation within your borders.

You will name your walls, ‘Deliverance,’

and your gates, ‘Praise.’

Yesaya 64:11

64:11 Our holy temple, our pride and joy, ¹² 

the place where our ancestors praised you,

has been burned with fire;

all our prized possessions have been destroyed. ¹³ 

[33:8]  ¹ tn Or “desolate” (NAB, NASB); NIV, NRSV, NLT “deserted.”

[33:8]  ² tn Heb “the one passing by on the road ceases.”

[33:8]  ³ tn Heb “one breaks a treaty”; NAB “Covenants are broken.”

[33:8]  ⁴ tc The Hebrew text reads literally, “he despises cities.” The term עָרִים (’arim, “cities”) is probably a corruption of an original עֵדִים (’edim, “[legal] witnesses”), a reading that is preserved in the Qumran scroll 1QIsa^a. Confusion of dalet (ד) and resh (ר) is a well-attested scribal error.

[33:8]  ⁵ tn Heb “he does not regard human beings.”

[51:19]  ⁶ tc The Hebrew text has אֲנַחֲמֵךְ (’anakhamekh), a first person form, but the Qumran scroll 1QIsa^a reads correctly יִנַחֲמֵךְ (yinakhamekh), a third person form.

[59:7]  ⁷ tn Heb “their feet run to evil.”

[59:7]  ⁸ tn Heb “they quickly pour out innocent blood.”

[59:7]  ⁹ tn Heb “their thoughts are thoughts of sin, destruction and crushing [are] in their roadways.”

[60:18]  ¹⁰ tn The words “sounds of” are supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[60:18]  ¹¹ tn The words “sounds of” are supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[64:11]  ¹² tn Heb “our source of pride.”

[64:11]  ¹³ tn Or “all that we valued has become a ruin.”