Yesaya 26:15

26:15 You have made the nation larger, ¹  O Lord,

you have made the nation larger and revealed your splendor, ² 

you have extended all the borders of the land.

Yesaya 43:14

The Lord Will Do Something New

43:14 This is what the Lord says,

your protector, ³  the Holy One of Israel: ⁴ 

“For your sake I send to Babylon

and make them all fugitives, ⁵ 

turning the Babylonians’ joyful shouts into mourning songs. ⁶ 

Yesaya 49:7

49:7 This is what the Lord,

the protector ⁷  of Israel, their Holy One, ⁸  says

to the one who is despised ⁹  and rejected ¹⁰  by nations, ¹¹ 

a servant of rulers:

“Kings will see and rise in respect, ¹² 

princes will bow down,

because of the faithful Lord,

the Holy One of Israel who has chosen you.”

Yesaya 49:23

49:23 Kings will be your children’s ¹³  guardians;

their princesses will nurse your children. ¹⁴ 

With their faces to the ground they will bow down to you

and they will lick the dirt on ¹⁵  your feet.

Then you will recognize that I am the Lord;

those who wait patiently for me are not put to shame.

Yesaya 54:3

54:3 For you will spread out to the right and to the left;

your children will conquer ¹⁶  nations

and will resettle desolate cities.

[26:15]  ¹ tn Heb “you have added to the nation.” The last line of the verse suggests that geographical expansion is in view. “The nation” is Judah.

[26:15]  ² tn Or “brought honor to yourself.”

[43:14]  ³ tn Or “kinsman redeemer.” See the note at 41:14.

[43:14]  ⁴ sn See the note on the phrase “the Holy One of Israel” in 1:4.

[43:14]  ⁵ tn Heb “and I bring down [as] fugitives all of them.”

[43:14]  ⁶ tn The Hebrew text reads literally, “as for the Babylonians, in ships their joyful shout.” This might be paraphrased, “even the Babylonians in the ships [over which] they joyfully shouted.” The point would be that the Lord caused the Babylonians to flee for safety in the ships in which they took such great pride. A slight change in vocalization yields the reading “into mourning songs,” which provides a good contrast with “joyful shout.” The prefixed bet (בְּ) would indicate identity.

[49:7]  ⁷ tn Heb “redeemer.” See the note at 41:14.

[49:7]  ⁸ sn See the note on the phrase “the Holy One of Israel” in 1:4.

[49:7]  ⁹ tc The Hebrew text reads literally “to [one who] despises life.” It is preferable to read with the Qumran scroll 1QIsa^a לבזוי, which should be vocalized as a passive participle, לִבְזוּי (livzuy, “to the one despised with respect to life” [נֶפֶשׁ is a genitive of specification]). The consonantal sequence וי was probably misread as ה in the MT tradition. The contextual argument favors the 1QIsa^a reading. As J. N. Oswalt (Isaiah [NICOT], 2:294) points out, the three terse phrases “convey a picture of lowliness, worthlessness, and helplessness.”

[49:7]  ¹⁰ tn MT’s Piel participle (“to the one who rejects”) does not fit contextually. The form should be revocalized as a Pual, “to the one rejected.”

[49:7]  ¹¹ tn Parallelism (see “rulers,” “kings,” “princes”) suggests that the singular גּוֹי (goy) be emended to a plural or understood in a collective sense (see 55:5).

[49:7]  ¹² tn For this sense of קוּם (qum), see Gen 19:1; 23:7; 33:10; Lev 19:32; 1 Sam 20:41; 25:41; 1 Kgs 2:19; Job 29:8.

[49:23]  ¹³ tn Heb “your,” but Zion here stands by metonymy for her children (see v. 22b).

[49:23]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “you.” See the preceding note.

[49:23]  ¹⁵ tn Or “at your feet” (NAB, NIV); NLT “from your feet.”

[54:3]  ¹⁶ tn Or “take possession of”; NAB “shall dispossess.”