Yesaya 24:15

24:15 So in the east ¹  extol the Lord,

along the seacoasts extol ²  the fame ³  of the Lord God of Israel.

Yesaya 40:15

40:15 Look, the nations are like a drop in a bucket;

they are regarded as dust on the scales.

He lifts ⁴  the coastlands ⁵  as if they were dust.

Yesaya 41:5

41:5 The coastlands ⁶  see and are afraid;

the whole earth ⁷  trembles;

they approach and come.

Yesaya 42:4

42:4 He will not grow dim or be crushed ⁸ 

before establishing justice on the earth;

the coastlands ⁹  will wait in anticipation for his decrees.” ¹⁰ 

Yesaya 42:10

42:10 Sing to the Lord a brand new song!

Praise him ¹¹  from the horizon of the earth,

you who go down to the sea, and everything that lives in it, ¹² 

you coastlands ¹³  and those who live there!

Yesaya 49:1

Ideal Israel Delivers the Exiles

49:1 Listen to me, you coastlands! ¹⁴ 

Pay attention, you people who live far away!

The Lord summoned me from birth; ¹⁵ 

he commissioned me when my mother brought me into the world. ¹⁶ 

Yesaya 51:5

51:5 I am ready to vindicate, ¹⁷ 

I am ready to deliver, ¹⁸ 

I will establish justice among the nations. ¹⁹ 

The coastlands ²⁰  wait patiently for me;

they wait in anticipation for the revelation of my power. ²¹ 

Yesaya 59:18

59:18 He repays them for what they have done,

dispensing angry judgment to his adversaries

and punishing his enemies. ²² 

He repays the coastlands. ²³ 

[24:15]  ¹ tc The Hebrew text reads literally, “in the lights,” interpreted by some to mean “in the region of light,” referring to the east. Some scholars have suggested the emendation of בָּאֻרִים (ba’urim) to בְּאִיֵּי הַיָּם (bÿ’iyyey hayyam, “along the seacoasts”), a phrase that is repeated in the next line. In this case, the two lines form synonymous parallelism. If one retains the MT reading (as above), “in the east” and “along the seacoasts” depict the two ends of the earth to refer to all the earth (as a merism).

[24:15]  ² tn The word “extol” is supplied in the translation; the verb in the first line does double duty in the parallelism.

[24:15]  ³ tn Heb “name,” which here stands for God’s reputation achieved by his mighty deeds.

[40:15]  ⁴ tn Or “weighs” (NIV); NLT “picks up.”

[40:15]  ⁵ tn Or “islands” (NASB, NIV, NLT).

[41:5]  ⁶ tn Or “islands” (NIV, CEV); NCV “faraway places”; NLT “lands beyond the sea.”

[41:5]  ⁷ tn Heb “the ends of the earth,” but this is a merism, where the earth’s extremities stand for its entirety, i.e., the extremities and everything in between them.

[42:4]  ⁸ tn For rhetorical effect the terms used to describe the “crushed (רָצַץ, ratsats) reed” and “dim (כָּהָה, kahah) wick” in v. 3 are repeated here.

[42:4]  ⁹ tn Or “islands” (NIV); NLT “distant lands beyond the sea.”

[42:4]  ¹⁰ tn Or “his law” (KJV, ASV, NASB, NIV) or “his instruction” (NLT).

[42:10]  ¹¹ tn Heb “his praise.” The phrase stands parallel to “new song” in the previous line.

[42:10]  ¹² tn Heb “and its fullness”; NASB, NIV “and all that is in it.”

[42:10]  ¹³ tn Or “islands” (NASB, NIV); NLT “distant coastlands.”

[49:1]  ¹⁴ tn Or “islands” (NASB, NIV); NLT “in far-off lands.”

[49:1]  sn The Lord’s special servant, introduced in chap. 42, speaks here of his commission.

[49:1]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “called me from the womb.”

[49:1]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “from the inner parts of my mother he mentioned my name.”

[51:5]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “my righteousness [or “vindication”] is near.”

[51:5]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “my deliverance goes forth.”

[51:5]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “and my arms will judge [on behalf of] nations.”

[51:5]  ²⁰ tn Or “islands” (NIV); TEV “Distant lands.”

[51:5]  ²¹ tn Heb “for my arm” (so NIV, NRSV).

[59:18]  ²² tn Heb “in accordance with deeds, so he repays, anger to his adversaries, repayment to his enemies.”

[59:18]  ²³ tn Or “islands” (KJV, NIV).