translation_id: net-engnet

book_id: ISA

label: NET translator note

text: Heb “their images belong to animals and beasts”; NIV “their idols are borne by beasts of burden”; NLT “are being hauled away.”


text: Heb “your loads are carried [as] a burden by a weary [animal].”


text: Heb “[the] burden,” i.e., their images, the heavy burden carried by the animals.


text: נַפְשָׁם ( nafsham , “their souls/lives”) is equivalent here to a third masculine plural suffix, but the third feminine singular verb הָלָכָה ( halakhah , “they go”) agrees with the feminine noun נֶפֶשׁ ( nefesh , “soul, life”).


text: Heb “house of Jacob”; TEV “descendants of Jacob.”


text: Heb “and all the remnant of the house of Israel.”


text: Heb “from the womb” (so NRSV); KJV “from the belly”; NAB “from your infancy.”


text: Heb “who have been lifted up from the womb.”


text: Heb “until old age, I am he” (NRSV similar); NLT “I will be your God throughout your lifetime.”


text: Heb “the reed,” probably referring to the beam of a scales. See BDB 889 s.v. קָנֶה 4.c.


text: Or perhaps, “cannot,” here and in the following two lines. The imperfect forms can indicate capability.


text: The meaning of the verb אָשַׁשׁ (’ ashash , which appears here in the Hitpolel stem) is uncertain. BDB 84 s.v. אשׁשׁ relates it to a root meaning “found, establish” in Arabic; HALOT 100 s.v. II אשׁשׁ gives the meaning “pluck up courage.” The imperative with vav ( ו ) may indicate purpose following the preceding imperative.


text: Heb “return [it], rebels, to heart”; NRSV “recall it to mind, you transgressors.”


text: Heb “remember the former things, from antiquity”; KJV, ASV “the former things of old.”


text: Heb “and there is no other” (so NASB, NIV, NRSV).


text: Or “from long ago”; KJV, NASB, NIV, NRSV “from ancient times.”


text: Or, more generally, “a bird of prey” (so NAB, NASB, NIV, NRSV; see 18:6 ).


text: Heb “spoken”; KJV “I have spoken it.”


text: Heb “strong of heart [or, mind]”; KJV “stouthearted”; NAB “fainthearted”; NIV “stubborn-hearted.”


text: Heb “who are far from righteousness [or perhaps, “deliverance”].”


text: Heb “my salvation.” The verb “I am bringing near” is understood by ellipsis (note the previous line).


text: Heb “I will place in Zion salvation”; NASB “I will grant salvation in Zion.”


text: Heb “to Israel my splendor”; KJV, ASV “for Israel my glory.”