Isaiah 47:12-14

New English Translation

Footnotes

1. Isaiah 47:12 tn Heb “stand” (so KJV, ASV); NASB, NRSV “Stand fast.”
2. Isaiah 47:12 tn The word “trusting” is supplied in the translation for clarification. See v. 9.
3. Isaiah 47:12 tn Heb “in that which you have toiled.”
4. Isaiah 47:12 tn Heb “maybe you will be able to profit.”
5. Isaiah 47:12 tn Heb “maybe you will cause to tremble.” The object “disaster” is supplied in the translation for clarification. See the note at v. 9.
6. Isaiah 47:13 tn Heb “you are tired because of the abundance of your advice.”
7. Isaiah 47:13 tn Heb “let them stand and rescue you—the ones who see omens in the sky, who gaze at the stars, who make known by months—from those things which are coming upon you.”
8. Isaiah 47:14 tn Heb “hand,” here a metaphor for the strength or power of the flames.
9. Isaiah 47:14 tn The Hebrew text reads literally, “there is no coal [for?] their food, light to sit before it.” Some emend לַחְמָם (lakhmam, “their food”) to לְחֻמָּם (l^ekhummam, “to warm them”; see HALOT 328 s.v. חמם). This statement may allude to Isa 44:16, where idolaters are depicted warming themselves over a fire made from wood, part of which was used to form idols. The fire of divine judgment will be no such campfire; its flames will devour and destroy.