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Isaiah 14:9
New English Translation
Isaiah 14:9
New English Translation
9 Sheol[a] below is stirred up about you,
ready to meet you when you arrive.
It rouses[b] the spirits of the dead for you,
all the former leaders of the earth;[c]
it makes all the former kings of the nations
rise from their thrones.[d]
Footnotes
- Isaiah 14:9 sn Sheol is the proper name of the subterranean world which was regarded as the land of the dead.
- Isaiah 14:9 tn Heb “arousing.” The form is probably a Polel infinitive absolute, rather than a third masculine singular perfect, for Sheol is grammatically feminine (note “stirred up”). See GKC 466 §145.t.
- Isaiah 14:9 tn Heb “all the rams of the earth.” The animal epithet is used metaphorically here for leaders. See HALOT 903 s.v. *עַתּוּד.
- Isaiah 14:9 tn Heb “lifting from their thrones all the kings of the nations.” הֵקִים (heqim, a Hiphil perfect third masculine singular) should be emended to an infinitive absolute (הָקֵים, haqem). See the note on “rouses” earlier in the verse.
Isaiah 14:9
Names of God Bible
Isaiah 14:9
Names of God Bible
9 Sheol below wakes up to meet you when you come.
It wakes up the ghosts of the dead,
all who were leaders on earth.
It raises all who were kings of the nations from their thrones.
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