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20 They cut meat on the right,
    but they’re still hungry,
and they devour also[a] on the left,
    but they’re not satisfied;
        each devours the flesh of his own children.[b]
21 Manasseh devours Ephraim,
    and Ephraim devours Manasseh;
together they are against Judah.

“Yet[c] for all this, his anger has not turned away,
    and his hand is still stretched out, ready to strike.”[d]

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 9:20 So 1QIsaa; MT LXX lacks also
  2. Isaiah 9:20 So 4QIsae; or arms; 1QIsaa MT read offspring or arm; LXX reads arm
  3. Isaiah 9:21 So 1QIsaa; MT LXX lack Yet
  4. Isaiah 9:21 DSS MT lack ready to strike