Yesaya 11:12

11:12 He will lift a signal flag for the nations;

he will gather Israel’s dispersed people ¹ 

and assemble Judah’s scattered people

from the four corners of the earth.

Yesaya 41:5

41:5 The coastlands ²  see and are afraid;

the whole earth ³  trembles;

they approach and come.

Yesaya 42:10

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

Praise him ⁴  from the horizon of the earth,

you who go down to the sea, and everything that lives in it, ⁵ 

you coastlands ⁶  and those who live there!

Yesaya 43:6

43:6 I will say to the north, ‘Hand them over!’

and to the south, ‘Don’t hold any back!’

Bring my sons from distant lands,

and my daughters from the remote regions of the earth,

Yesaya 48:20

48:20 Leave Babylon!

Flee from the Babylonians!

Announce it with a shout of joy!

Make this known!

Proclaim it throughout the earth! ⁷ 

Say, ‘The Lord protects ⁸  his servant Jacob.

Yesaya 62:11

62:11 Look, the Lord announces to the entire earth: ⁹ 

“Say to Daughter Zion,

‘Look, your deliverer comes!

Look, his reward is with him

and his reward goes before him!’” ¹⁰ 

[11:12]  ¹ tn Or “the banished of Israel,” i.e., the exiles.

[41:5]  ² tn Or “islands” (NIV, CEV); NCV “faraway places”; NLT “lands beyond the sea.”

[41:5]  ³ 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.

[42:10]  ⁴ tn Heb “his praise.” The phrase stands parallel to “new song” in the previous line.

[42:10]  ⁵ tn Heb “and its fullness”; NASB, NIV “and all that is in it.”

[42:10]  ⁶ tn Or “islands” (NASB, NIV); NLT “distant coastlands.”

[48:20]  ⁷ tn Heb “to the end of the earth” (so KJV, NASB, NRSV).

[48:20]  ⁸ tn Heb “redeems.” See the note at 41:14.

[62:11]  ⁹ tn Heb “to the end of the earth” (so NASB, NRSV).

[62:11]  ¹⁰ sn As v. 12 indicates, the returning exiles are the Lord’s reward/prize. See also 40:10 and the note there.