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Isaiah 36:12
New English Translation
Isaiah 36:12
New English Translation
12 But the chief adviser said, “My master did not send me to speak these words only to your master and to you.[a] His message is also for the men who sit on the wall, for they will eat their own excrement and drink their own urine along with you!”[b]
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- Isaiah 36:12 tn Heb “To your master and to you did my master send me to speak these words?” The rhetorical question expects a negative answer.
- Isaiah 36:12 tn Heb “[Is it] not [also] to the men…?” The rhetorical question expects the answer, “Yes, it is.”sn The chief adviser alludes to the horrible reality of siege warfare, when the starving people in the besieged city would resort to eating and drinking anything to stay alive.
Isaiah 36:12
New International Version
Isaiah 36:12
New International Version
12 But the commander replied, “Was it only to your master and you that my master sent me to say these things, and not to the people sitting on the wall—who, like you, will have to eat their own excrement and drink their own urine?(A)”
Isaiah 36:12
King James Version
Isaiah 36:12
King James Version
12 But Rabshakeh said, Hath my master sent me to thy master and to thee to speak these words? hath he not sent me to the men that sit upon the wall, that they may eat their own dung, and drink their own piss with you?
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