480 Csaba Balogh masc. forms in addressing the enemy and applies the paronomasia as a literary feature (dde/v / dWdv; / dde/v / dV'WT; dgE/B / Wdg]B; / dgOB] / WdG]b]yI). In v. 2 the form and content changes abruptly. The ywh-cry of v. 1 is discontinued, both as a prophetic word and as a text addressing the enemy. Vv. 2-3 is a prayer of a community (12) addressing YHWH in the 2nd person. Kaiser tried to solve the problem by maintaining that v. 1 was a superscription or motto to the main text (13). But such a combination of woe-cry and prayer would be unique to the Bible. Wildberger, who is also aware of the unsuitability of v. 1, takes this as the description of the situation lamented in vv. 2-6 (14). However, v. 1 hardly complies formally with this element of the lamentations. Therefore the problem with the incompatibility of vv. 1 and 2-3 remains. Although the prayer addressing YHWH in 2nd pers. comprises only vv. 2-3, scholars often connect v. 4 to this prayer (15). In the present form of v. 4 this is clearly impossible because the 2nd pl. suffix of μkllv points to a different speaker and audience (16). Another problem is that while v. 3 probably alludes to historical experiences of deliverance, based upon which the community expects YHWH’s future act of salvation (17), the message of v. 4 is far too concrete to fulfil this function. In my view, the problem is ultimately not with the text of v. 4, but with connecting it to vv. 2-3. As noted above, there is a break after v. 1, which may suggest that vv. 2-3, the unusual prayer in the context of a ywh-prophecy, were inserted here secondarily. If v. 4 is read as a direct follow-up to v. 1, the text becomes perfectly clear. The enemy was addressed in the 2nd and 3rd pers. in v. 1, and so we find this also in (12) Cf. wnnj, wnywq, wnt[wvy. μ[rz is probably also to be corrected to wn[rz (cf. Tg, Syr and some Vg manuscripts). On the μ > wn change as scribal error, cf. E. TOV, Textual Criticism of the Hebrew Bible (Minneapolis, MN – Assen 22001) 249. (13) O. KAISER, Der Prophet Jesaja. Kapitel 13–39 (Göttingen 1973) 269; cf. also KUSTÁR, Krankheit, 82. (14) WILDBERGER, Jesaja, 1285. (15) BEUKEN, “Jesaja 33”, 15; M.A. SWEENEY, Isaiah 1–39 with an Introduction to Prophetic Literature (FOTL 14; Grand Rapids, MI 1996) 422; BERGES, Jesaja, 241; KUSTÁR, Krankheit, 82. (16) In order to sustain the unity of vv. 3-4, πsa μkllv is usually emended to πsa wmk llv (DUHM, Jesaia, 240; WILDBERGER, Jesaja, 1283) or πsamk llv (apparatus of the BHS3). However, there is strong support for the MT. Cf. 1QIsaa, LXX (ta; sku'la uJmw'n), Vg (spolia vestra); note also the suff. in Syr (bzhwn). For the absence of the prep. k in comparison, see GKC §§118r, 141d. (17) Cf. KUSTÁR, Krankheit, 82.