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1 sn “Heart” is a metonymy of subject; it signifies the ability to make decisions, if not the decisions themselves.

2 sn “Hand” in this passage is a personification; the word is frequently used idiomatically for “power,” and that is the sense intended here.

3 tn “Channels of water” (פַּלְגֵי, palge) is an adverbial accusative, functioning as a figure of comparison - “like channels of water.” Cf. NAB “Like a stream”; NIV “watercourse”; NRSV, NLT “a stream of water.”

sn The farmer channels irrigation ditches where he wants them, where they will do the most good; so does the Lord with the king. No king is supreme; the Lord rules.

Isaiah 1:3

4 tn Heb “in his own eyes.” The term “eyes” is a metonymy for estimation, opinion, evaluation.

5 tn Heb “weighs” (so NASB, NIV, NRSV); NLT “examines”; NCV, TEV “judges.”

6 tn Heb “the hearts.” The term לֵב (lev, “heart”) is used as a metonymy of association for thoughts and motives (BDB 660-61 s.v. 6-7). Even though people think they know themselves, the Lord evaluates motives as well (e.g., Proverbs 16:2).

Isaiah 1:4

7 tn The Niphal participle בָּחַר (bakhar, “to choose”) means “choice to the Lord” or “chosen of the Lord,” meaning “acceptable to the Lord”; cf. TEV “pleases the Lord more.”

8 sn The Lord prefers righteousness above religious service (e.g., Proverbs 15:8; 21:29; 1 Samuel 15:22; Psalms 40:6-8; Isaiah 1:11-17). This is not a rejection of ritual worship; rather, religious acts are without value apart from righteous living.

Isaiah 1:5

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Isaiah 1:6

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