Yesaya 36:11

36:11 Eliakim, Shebna, and Joah said to the chief adviser, “Speak to your servants in Aramaic, ¹  for we understand it. Don’t speak with us in the Judahite dialect ²  in the hearing of the people who are on the wall.”

Yesaya 36:16

36:16 Don’t listen to Hezekiah!’ For this is what the king of Assyria says, ‘Send me a token of your submission and surrender to me. ³  Then each of you may eat from his own vine and fig tree and drink water from his own cistern,

Yesaya 36:22

36:22 Eliakim son of Hilkiah, the palace supervisor, accompanied by Shebna the scribe and Joah son of Asaph, the secretary, went to Hezekiah with their clothes torn in grief ⁴  and reported to him what the chief adviser had said.

Yesaya 63:1

The Victorious Divine Warrior

63:1 Who is this who comes from Edom, ⁵ 

dressed in bright red, coming from Bozrah? ⁶ 

Who ⁷  is this one wearing royal attire, ⁸ 

who marches confidently ⁹  because of his great strength?

“It is I, the one who announces vindication,

and who is able to deliver!” ¹⁰ 

[36:11]  ¹ sn Aramaic was the diplomatic language of the Assyrian empire.

[36:11]  ² tn Or “in Hebrew” (NIV, NCV, NLT); NAB, NASB “in Judean.”

[36:16]  ³ tn Heb “make with me a blessing and come out to me.”

[36:22]  ⁴ tn Heb “with their clothes torn”; the words “in grief” have been supplied in the translation to indicate that this was done as a sign of grief and mourning.

[63:1]  ⁵ sn Edom is here an archetype for the Lord’s enemies. See 34:5.

[63:1]  ⁶ tn Heb “[in] bright red garments, from Bozrah.”

[63:1]  ⁷ tn The interrogative particle is understood by ellipsis; note the first line of the verse.

[63:1]  ⁸ tn Heb “honored in his clothing”; KJV, ASV “glorious in his apparel.”

[63:1]  ⁹ tc The Hebrew text has צָעָה (tsa’ah), which means “stoop, bend” (51:14). The translation assumes an emendation to צָעַד (tsa’ad, “march”; see BDB 858 s.v. צָעָה).

[63:1]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “I, [the one] speaking in vindication [or “righteousness”], great to deliver.”