translation_id: net-engnet

book_id: ISA

label: NET translator note

text: The final mem ( ם ) on the verb יְשֻׂשׂוּם ( yÿsusum ) is dittographic (note the initial mem on the following noun מִדְבָּר [ midbar ]). The ambiguous verbal form is translated as a jussive because it is parallel to the jussive form תָגֵל ( tagel ). The jussive is used rhetorically here, not as a literal command or prayer.


text: Or “Arabah” (NASB); NAB, NIV, TEV “desert.”


text: The ambiguous verb form תִּפְרַח ( tifrakh ) is translated as a jussive because it is parallel to the jussive form תָגֵל ( tagel ).


text: Heb “and let it rejoice, yes [with] rejoicing and shouting.” גִּילַת ( gilat ) may be an archaic feminine nominal form (see GKC 421 §130. b ).


text: Or “glory” (KJV, NIV, NRSV); also a second time later in this verse.


text: Heb “staggering knees”; KJV, ASV, NRSV “feeble knees”; NIV “knees that give way.”


text: Heb “Say to the hasty of heart,” i.e., those whose hearts beat quickly from fear.


text: The jussive form וְיֹשַׁעֲכֶם ( vÿyosha ’ akhem ), which is subordinated to the preceding imperfect with vav conjunctive, indicates purpose.


text: Heb “burst forth” (so NAB); KJV “break out.”


text: does not reflect the repetition of the phrase.


text: The precise meaning of this line is uncertain. The text reads literally “and it is for them, the one who walks [on the] way.” In this context those authorized to use the Way of Holiness would be morally upright people who are the recipients of God’s deliverance, in contrast to the morally impure and foolish who are excluded from the new covenant community.


text: In this context “fools” are those who are morally corrupt, not those with limited intellectual capacity.


text: Heb “will go up on it”; TEV “will pass that way.”


text: Heb “and the redeemed will walk, the ransomed of the Lord will return.”


text: Heb “[will be] on their head[s].” “Joy” may be likened here to a crown (cf. 2 Sam 1:10 ). The statement may also be an ironic twist on the idiom “earth/dust on the head” (cf. 2 Sam 1:2; 13:19; 15:32 ; Job 2:12 ), referring to a mourning practice.


text: Heb “will overtake” (NIV); NLT “they will be overcome with.”


text: Heb “grief and groaning will flee”; KJV “sorrow and sighing shall flee away.”