Yesaya 30:30

30:30 The Lord will give a mighty shout ¹ 

and intervene in power, ² 

with furious anger and flaming, destructive fire, ³ 

with a driving rainstorm and hailstones.

Yesaya 47:6

47:6 I was angry at my people;

I defiled my special possession

and handed them over to you.

You showed them no mercy; ⁴ 

you even placed a very heavy burden on old people. ⁵ 

Yesaya 64:5

64:5 You assist ⁶  those who delight in doing what is right, ⁷ 

who observe your commandments. ⁸ 

Look, you were angry because we violated them continually.

How then can we be saved? ⁹ 

[30:30]  ¹ tn Heb “the Lord will cause the splendor of his voice to be heard.”

[30:30]  ² tn Heb “and reveal the lowering of his arm.”

[30:30]  ³ tn Heb “and a flame of consuming fire.”

[47:6]  ⁴ tn Or “compassion.”

[47:6]  ⁵ tn Heb “on the old you made very heavy your yoke.”

[64:5]  ⁶ tn Heb “meet [with kindness].”

[64:5]  ⁷ tn Heb “the one who rejoices and does righteousness.”

[64:5]  ⁸ tn Heb “in your ways they remember you.”

[64:5]  ⁹ tc The Hebrew text reads literally, “look, you were angry and we sinned against them continually [or perhaps, “in ancient times”] and we were delivered.” The statement makes little sense as it stands. The first vav [ו] consecutive (“and we sinned”) must introduce an explanatory clause here (see Num 1:48 and Isa 39:1 for other examples of this relatively rare use of the vav [ו] consecutive). The final verb (if rendered positively) makes no sense in this context – God’s anger at their sin resulted in judgment, not deliverance. One of the alternatives involves an emendation to וַנִּרְשָׁע (vannirsha’, “and we were evil”; LXX, NRSV, TEV). The Vulgate and the Qumran scroll 1QIsa^a support the MT reading. One can either accept an emendation or cast the statement as a question (as above).