Yesaya 14:2

14:2 Nations will take them and bring them back to their own place. Then the family of Jacob will make foreigners their servants as they settle in the Lord’s land. ¹  They will make their captors captives and rule over the ones who oppressed them.

Yesaya 22:11

22:11 You made a reservoir between the two walls

for the water of the old pool –

but you did not trust in ²  the one who made it; ³ 

you did not depend on ⁴  the one who formed it long ago!

Yesaya 48:16

48:16 Approach me! Listen to this!

From the very first I have not spoken in secret;

when it happens, ⁵  I am there.”

So now, the sovereign Lord has sent me, accompanied by his spirit. ⁶ 

Yesaya 58:11

58:11 The Lord will continually lead you;

he will feed you even in parched regions. ⁷ 

He will give you renewed strength, ⁸ 

and you will be like a well-watered garden,

like a spring that continually produces water.

Yesaya 65:1

The Lord Will Distinguish Between Sinners and the Godly

65:1 “I made myself available to those who did not ask for me; ⁹ 

I appeared to those who did not look for me. ¹⁰ 

I said, ‘Here I am! Here I am!’

to a nation that did not invoke ¹¹  my name.

[14:2]  ¹ tn Heb “and the house of Jacob will take possession of them [i.e., the nations], on the land of the Lord, as male servants and female servants.”

[22:11]  ² tn Heb “look at”; NAB, NRSV “did not look to.”

[22:11]  ³ tn The antecedent of the third feminine singular suffix here and in the next line is unclear. The closest feminine noun is “pool” in the first half of the verse. Perhaps this “old pool” symbolizes the entire city, which had prospered because of God’s provision and protection through the years.

[22:11]  ⁴ tn Heb “did not see.”

[48:16]  ⁵ tn Heb “from the time of its occurring.”

[48:16]  ⁶ sn The speaker here is not identified specifically, but he is probably Cyrus, the Lord’s “ally” mentioned in vv. 14-15.

[58:11]  ⁷ tn Heb “he will satisfy in parched regions your appetite.”

[58:11]  ⁸ tn Heb “and your bones he will strengthen.”

[65:1]  ⁹ tn Heb “I allowed myself to be sought by those who did not ask.”

[65:1]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “I allowed myself to be found by those who did not seek.”

[65:1]  ¹¹ tn Heb “call out in”; NASB, NIV, NRSV “call on.”