▼tn Or “desolate” (NAB, NASB); NIV, NRSV, NLT “deserted.”

▼tn Heb “the one passing by on the road ceases.”

▼tn Heb “one breaks a treaty”; NAB “Covenants are broken.”

▼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.

▼tn Heb “he does not regard human beings.”