It also seems rather too literalistic to assume that only supernatural beings can level hills and raise valleys. The case for a divine council scenario in dependence on Isa 6 is taken further by Melugin (1976, 82–84), Seitz (1990, 229–47), and Williamson (1994, 37–38). Melugin argues from the plural imperatives in 40:1–2, but it is difficult to see why injunctions in the plural must be addressed to divine beings rather than to a plurality of prophets. In fact, a prophetic plurality is referred to