translation_id: net-engnet

book_id: ISA

label: NET translator note

text: Heb “short” (so NAB, NASB, NIV).


text: Or “ransom” (NAB, NASB, NIV).


text: Heb “with my rebuke.”


text: Heb “the fish stink from lack of water and die from thirst.”


text: Heb “has given to me a tongue of disciples.” sn Verses 4-11 contain the third of the so-called servant songs, which depict the career of the Lord’s special servant, envisioned as an ideal Israel ( 49:3 ) who rescues the exiles and fulfills God’s purposes for the world. Here the servant alludes to opposition (something hinted at in 49:4 ), but also expresses his determination to persevere with the Lord’s help.


text: and the Vulgate support the MT reading, that reading is retained.


text: Heb “he arouses for me an ear, to hear like disciples.”


text: Or perhaps, “makes me obedient.” The text reads literally, “has opened for me an ear.”


text: Or perhaps, “who beat [me].”


text: Heb “Therefore I set my face like flint.”


text: Heb “Let us stand together!”


text: Heb “Who is the master of my judgment?”


text: Heb “let him approach me”; NAB, NIV “Let him confront me.”


text: Heb “[who] listens to the voice of his servant?” The interrogative is understood by ellipsis (note the preceding line).


text: The plural indicates degree. Darkness may refer to exile and/or moral evil.


label: NET textual note

text: Several more recent commentators have proposed an emendation of מְאַזְּרֵי ( mÿ ’ azzÿre , “who put on”) to מְאִירִי ( mÿ ’ iri , “who light”). However, both Qumran scrolls of Isaiah and the Vulgate support the MT reading (cf. NIV, ESV).


text: On the meaning of זִיקוֹת ( ziqot , “flaming arrows”), see HALOT 268 s.v. זִיקוֹת .


text: The imperative is probably rhetorical and has a predictive force.


text: Or perhaps, “flame” (so ASV).


text: Heb “from my hand” (so NAB, NASB, NIV, NRSV).