ISAIAH 21:1-17 NLT TEXT NOTES

*Isa 21:1 Hebrew concerning the desert by the sea.

*Isa 21:8 As in Dead Sea Scrolls and Syriac version; Masoretic Text reads a lion.

*Isa 21:11a Hebrew Dumah, which means “silence” or “stillness.” It is a wordplay on the word Edom.

*Isa 21:11b Hebrew Seir, another name for Edom.

*Isa 21:16 Hebrew Within a year, as a servant bound by contract would count it. Some ancient manuscripts read Within three years, as in 16:14.