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Isaiah 42:24-25
New English Translation
Isaiah 42:24-25
New English Translation
24 Who handed Jacob over to the robber?
Who handed Israel over to the looters?[a]
Was it not the Lord, against whom we sinned?
They refused to follow his commands;
they disobeyed his law.[b]
25 So he poured out his fierce anger on them,[c]
along with the devastation[d] of war.
Its flames encircled them,[e] but they did not realize it;[f]
it burned against them, but they did not take it to heart.[g]
Footnotes
- Isaiah 42:24 tn Heb “Who gave to the robber Jacob, and Israel to the looters?” In the first line the consonantal text (Kethib) has מְשׁוֹסֶה (meshoseh), a Polel participle from שָׁסָה (shasah, “plunder”). The marginal reading (Qere) is מְשִׁיסָּה (meshissah), a noun meaning “plunder.” In this case one could translate “Who handed Jacob over as plunder?”
- Isaiah 42:24 tn Heb “they were not willing in his ways to walk, and they did not listen to his law.”
- Isaiah 42:25 tn The Hebrew third masculine singular pronoun, representing the nation, has been rendered as the third plural throughout this verse.
- Isaiah 42:25 tn Heb “strength” (so KJV, NASB); NAB “fury”; NASB “fierceness”; NIV “violence.”
- Isaiah 42:25 tn Heb “and it blazed against him all around.” The subject of the third feminine singular verb “blazed” is the divine חֵמָה (khemah, “anger”) mentioned in the previous line.
- Isaiah 42:25 sn It is not that he did not know about the war, but he did not attribute this to God’s wrath.
- Isaiah 42:25 tn Heb “but he did not set [it] upon [his] heart.” The Hebrew word “heart” also refers to the mind.
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