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Isaiah 33:8
New English Translation
Isaiah 33:8
New English Translation
8 Highways are empty,[a]
there are no travelers.[b]
Treaties are broken,[c]
witnesses are despised,[d]
human life is treated with disrespect.[e]
Footnotes
- Isaiah 33:8 tn Or “desolate” (NAB, NASB); NIV, NRSV, NLT “deserted.”
- Isaiah 33:8 tn Heb “the one passing by on the road ceases.”
- Isaiah 33:8 tn Heb “one breaks a treaty”; NAB “Covenants are broken.”
- Isaiah 33:8 tc The Hebrew text reads literally, “he despises cities.” The term עָרִים (ʿarim, “cities”) probably needs to be emended to an original עֵדִים (ʿedim, “[legal] witnesses”), a reading that is preserved in the Qumran scroll 1QIsaa. Confusion of dalet (ד) and resh (ר) is a well-attested scribal error.
- Isaiah 33:8 tn Heb “he does not regard human beings.”
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