Yesaya 2:11-12

2:11 Proud men will be brought low,

arrogant men will be humiliated; ¹ 

the Lord alone will be exalted ² 

in that day.

2:12 Indeed, the Lord who commands armies has planned a day of judgment, ³ 

for ⁴  all the high and mighty,

for all who are proud – they will be humiliated;

Yesaya 7:16

7:16 Here is why this will be so: ⁵  Before the child knows how to reject evil and choose what is right, the land ⁶  whose two kings you fear will be desolate. ⁷ 

Yesaya 21:6

21:6 For this is what the sovereign master ⁸  has told me:

“Go, post a guard!

He must report what he sees.

Yesaya 22:4

22:4 So I say:

“Don’t look at me! ⁹ 

I am weeping bitterly.

Don’t try ¹⁰  to console me

concerning the destruction of my defenseless people.” ¹¹ 

Yesaya 29:10

29:10 For the Lord has poured out on you

a strong urge to sleep deeply. ¹² 

He has shut your eyes (the prophets),

and covered your heads (the seers).

Yesaya 32:9

The Lord Will Give True Security

32:9 You complacent ¹³  women,

get up and listen to me!

You carefree ¹⁴  daughters,

pay attention to what I say!

Yesaya 32:11

32:11 Tremble, you complacent ones!

Shake with fear, you carefree ones!

Strip off your clothes and expose yourselves –

put sackcloth on your waist! ¹⁵ 

Yesaya 38:13

38:13 I cry out ¹⁶  until morning;

like a lion he shatters all my bones;

you turn day into night and end my life. ¹⁷ 

Yesaya 38:16

38:16 O sovereign master, your decrees can give men life;

may years of life be restored to me. ¹⁸ 

Restore my health ¹⁹  and preserve my life.’

Yesaya 41:5

41:5 The coastlands ²⁰  see and are afraid;

the whole earth ²¹  trembles;

they approach and come.

Yesaya 61:2

61:2 to announce the year when the Lord will show his favor,

the day when our God will seek vengeance, ²² 

to console all who mourn,

Yesaya 65:3

65:3 These people continually and blatantly offend me ²³ 

as they sacrifice in their sacred orchards ²⁴ 

and burn incense on brick altars. ²⁵ 

[2:11]  ¹ tn Heb “and the eyes of the pride of men will be brought low, and the arrogance of men will be brought down.” The repetition of the verbs שָׁפַל (shafal) and שָׁחָח (shakhakh) from v. 9 draws attention to the appropriate nature of the judgment. Those proud men who “bow low” before idols will be forced to “bow low” before God when he judges their sin.

[2:11]  ² tn Or “elevated”; CEV “honored.”

[2:12]  ³ tn Heb “indeed [or “for”] the Lord who commands armies [traditionally, the Lord of hosts] has a day.”

[2:12]  ⁴ tn Or “against” (NAB, NASB, NRSV).

[7:16]  ⁵ tn Heb “for, because.” The particle introduces the entire following context (vv. 16-25), which explains why Immanuel will be an appropriate name for the child, why he will eat sour milk and honey, and why experiencing such a diet will contribute to his moral development.

[7:16]  ⁶ sn Since “two kings” are referred to later in the verse, the “land” must here refer to Syria-Israel.

[7:16]  ⁷ tn Heb “the land will be abandoned, which you fear because of its two kings.” After the verb קוּץ (quts, “loathe, dread”) the phrase מִפְּנֵי (mipney, “from before”) introduces the cause of loathing/dread (see Gen 27:46; Exod 1:12; Num 22:3).

[21:6]  ⁸ tn The Hebrew term translated “sovereign master” here and in vv. 8, 16 is אֲדֹנָי (’adonay).

[22:4]  ⁹ tn Heb “look away from me” (so KJV, ASV, NRSV).

[22:4]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “don’t hurry” (so NCV).

[22:4]  ¹¹ tn Heb “the daughter of my people.” “Daughter” is here used metaphorically to express the speaker’s emotional attachment to his people, as well as their vulnerability and weakness.

[29:10]  ¹² tn Heb “a disposition [or “spirit”] of deep sleep.” Through this mixed metaphor (sleep is likened to a liquid which one pours and in turn symbolizes spiritual dullness) the prophet emphasizes that God himself has given the people over to their spiritual insensitivity as a form of judgment.

[32:9]  ¹³ tn Or “self-assured”; NASB, NRSV “who are at ease.”

[32:9]  ¹⁴ tn Or “self-confident”; NAB “overconfident.”

[32:11]  ¹⁵ tn The imperatival forms in v. 11 are problematic. The first (חִרְדוּ, khirdu, “tremble”) is masculine plural in form, though spoken to a feminine plural addressee (שַׁאֲנַנּוֹת, sha’anannot, “complacent ones”). The four imperatival forms that follow (רְגָזָה, rÿgazah, “shake with fear”; פְּשֹׁטָה, pÿshotah, “strip off your clothes”; עֹרָה, ’orah, “expose yourselves”; and חֲגוֹרָה, khagorah, “put on”) all appear to be lengthened (so-called “emphatic”) masculine singular forms, even though they too appear to be spoken to a feminine plural addressee. GKC 131-32 §48.i suggests emending חִרְדוּ (khirdu) to חֲרָדָה (kharadah) and understanding all five imperatives as feminine plural “aramaized” forms.

[38:13]  ¹⁶ tn The verb form in the Hebrew text is a Piel from שָׁוַה (shavah). There are two homonyms שָׁוַה, one meaning in the Piel “level, smooth out,” the other “set, place.” Neither fits in v. 13. It is likely that the original reading was שִׁוַּעְתִּי (shivva’ti, “I cry out”) from the verbal root שָׁוַע (shava’), which occurs exclusively in the Piel.

[38:13]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “from day to night you bring me to an end.”

[38:16]  ¹⁸ tn The translation offered here is purely speculative. The text as it stands is meaningless and probably corrupt. It reads literally, “O lord, on account of them [the suffix is masculine plural], they live, and to all in them [the suffix is feminine plural], life of my spirit.”

[38:16]  ¹⁹ tn The prefixed verbal form could be taken as indicative, “you restore my health,” but the following imperatival form suggests it be understood as an imperfect of request.

[41:5]  ²⁰ tn Or “islands” (NIV, CEV); NCV “faraway places”; NLT “lands beyond the sea.”

[41:5]  ²¹ 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.

[61:2]  ²² tn Heb “to announce the year of the Lord’s favor, and the day of our God’s vengeance.

[65:3]  ²³ tn Heb “the people who provoke me to anger to my face continually.”

[65:3]  ²⁴ tn Or “gardens” (KJV, NASB, NIV, NRSV, NLT).

[65:3]  ²⁵ tn Or perhaps, “on tiles.”