9. ἄνθρωπος . . .ἀνὴρ] These words answer well enough to Heb. adam. . .ish. So Lat. homo and Mr, Germ. Mensch and Mann. is obliged to fall back on phrases. Cf. v. 15, xxxi. 8 (where some explain differently) and Ps. xlix.

ἀνήσω] Perhaps ἀνοίσω, see on i. 14: ἔξω, ‘forgive,’ primarily ‘bear.’

10. κρύπτεσθε εἰς τήν γῆν] For the use of the preposition, see above, on i. 29. In Hebrew examples occur frequently, as Gen. xiv. 3, 15, Ps. xxviii. 1, lxxxix. 39, lsai. xiv. 17, c. For the idea of the verse Hosea x. 8, quoted Luke xxiii. 30, and Rev. vi. 16; actual instances of such hiding-places, Judg. vi. 2, 1 Sam. xiii. 6, xiv. 11, xxiv. 2, 3, cf. 1 Kings xviii. 13, 2 Kings xiii. 21.

ἀπὸ προσώπου] Α literal rendering of Heb. wan, which is almost as a simple preposition, sometimes meaning little more than ‘because οf’: here the original meaning is hardly lost. Cf. vi. 13 with xvi. 8. For the general idea Kay compares 2 Chron. xvii. 10. See the reference to this passage, 2 Thess. i. 9.

ὅταν. . .τὴν γῆν] This completion of the refrain is not in the Heb. of this verse, but would be easily supplied from ver. 19, 21. The recurring refrain is a feature, apparently, of Isaiah's earlier style, as in chaps. v., ix. 7—x. 4 : possibly due to the fluence of his great Amos; see Amos i. 3, 6, 9, c., iii. 1, iv. 1, v. 1, vii. 1, 4 Here it is twofold, as in Psalm cvii.