translation_id: net-engnet

book_id: ISA

label: NET translator note

text: Or “in the Negev” (NASB).


text: Heb “a severe revelation has been related to me.”


text: Heb “my waist is filled with shaking [or “anguish”].”


text: Or perhaps, “bent over [in pain]”; cf. NRSV “I am bowed down.”


text: Heb “wanders,” perhaps here, “is confused.”


text: Heb “shuddering terrifies me.”


text: The precise meaning of the verb in this line is debated. Some prefer to derive the form from the homonymic צָפֹה ( tsafoh , “keep watch”) and translate “post a guard” (cf. KJV “watch in the watchtower”; ASV “set the watch”).


text: The verbal forms in the first three lines are infinitives absolute, which are functioning here as finite verbs. It is uncertain if the forms should have an imperatival or indicative/descriptive force here.


text: The Hebrew term translated “sovereign master” here and in vv. 8, 16 is אֲדֹנָי (’ adonay ).


text: Or “a pair of horsemen.”


text: The Hebrew text has, “the lion,” but this makes little sense here. אַרְיֵה (’ aryeh , “lion”) is probably a corruption of an original הָרֹאֶה ( haro ’ eh , “the one who sees”), i.e., the guard mentioned previously in v. 6 .


text: The Hebrew term translated “sovereign master” here is אֲדֹנָי (’ adonay ). Some translations take this to refer to the Lord (cf. NAB, NASB, NRSV), while others take it to refer to the guard’s human master (“my lord”; cf. NIV, NLT).


text: Or “[with] teams of horses,” or perhaps, “with a pair of horsemen.”


text: Heb “and he answered and said” (so KJV, ASV).


text: Heb “My trampled one, and the son of the threshing floor.”


text: The noun דּוּמָה ( dumah ) means “silence,” but here it is a proper name, probably referring to a site in northern Arabia or to the nation of Edom. See BDB 189 s.v. II דּוּמָה . If Dumah was an area in northern Arabia, it would be of interest to the Edomites because of its strategic position on trade routes which they used. See J. N. Oswalt, Isaiah (NICOT), 1:398.


text: The Hebrew term translated “sovereign master” here is אֲדֹנָי (’ adonay ).


text: Heb “in still a year, like the years of a hired worker.” See the note at 16:14 .


text: Heb “and the remnant of the number of the bow, the mighty men of the sons of Kedar, will be few.”


text: Or “for” (KJV, ASV, NAB, NASB, NRSV).