Yesaya 2:19

2:19 They ¹  will go into caves in the rocky cliffs

and into holes in the ground, ² 

trying to escape the dreadful judgment of the Lord ³ 

and his royal splendor,

when he rises up to terrify the earth. ⁴ 

Yesaya 3:14

3:14 The Lord comes to pronounce judgment

on the leaders of his people and their officials.

He says, ⁵  “It is you ⁶  who have ruined ⁷  the vineyard! ⁸ 

You have stashed in your houses what you have stolen from the poor. ⁹ 

Yesaya 13:20

13:20 No one will live there again;

no one will ever reside there again. ¹⁰ 

No bedouin ¹¹  will camp ¹²  there,

no shepherds will rest their flocks ¹³  there.

Yesaya 14:29

14:29 Don’t be so happy, all you Philistines,

just because the club that beat you has been broken! ¹⁴ 

For a viper will grow out of the serpent’s root,

and its fruit will be a darting adder. ¹⁵ 

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 ¹⁶  the one who made it; ¹⁷ 

you did not depend on ¹⁸  the one who formed it long ago!

Yesaya 25:6

25:6 The Lord who commands armies will hold a banquet for all the nations on this mountain. ¹⁹ 

At this banquet there will be plenty of meat and aged wine –

tender meat and choicest wine. ²⁰ 

Yesaya 29:11

29:11 To you this entire prophetic revelation ²¹  is like words in a sealed scroll. When they hand it to one who can read ²²  and say, “Read this,” he responds, “I can’t, because it is sealed.”

Yesaya 39:2

39:2 Hezekiah welcomed ²³  them and showed them his storehouse with its silver, gold, spices, and high-quality olive oil, as well as his whole armory and everything in his treasuries. Hezekiah showed them everything in his palace and in his whole kingdom. ²⁴ 

[2:19]  ¹ tn The identity of the grammatical subject is unclear. The “idols” could be the subject; they will “go” into the caves and holes when the idolaters throw them there in their haste to escape God’s judgment (see vv. 20-21). The picture of the idols, which represent the foreign deities worshiped by the people, fleeing from the Lord would be highly polemical and fit the overall mood of the chapter. However it seems more likely that the idolaters themselves are the subject, for v. 10 uses similar language in sarcastically urging them to run from judgment.

[2:19]  ² tn Heb “dust”; ASV “into the holes of the earth.”

[2:19]  ³ tn Heb “from the dread of the Lord,” that is, from the dread that he produces in the objects of his judgment.” The words “trying to escape” are supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[2:19]  ⁴ tn Or “land.” It is not certain if these verses are describing the judgment of Judah (see vv. 6-9) or a more universal judgment on all proud men.

[3:14]  ⁵ tn The words “he says” are supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[3:14]  ⁶ tn The pronominal element is masculine plural; the leaders are addressed.

[3:14]  ⁷ tn The verb בָּעַר (ba’ar, “graze, ruin”; HALOT 146 s.v. II בער) is a homonym of the more common בָּעַר (ba’ar, “burn”; see HALOT 145 s.v. I בער).

[3:14]  ⁸ sn The vineyard is a metaphor for the nation here. See 5:1-7.

[3:14]  ⁹ tn Heb “the plunder of the poor [is] in your houses” (so NASB).

[13:20]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “she will not be inhabited forever, and she will not be dwelt in to generation and generation (i.e., forever).” The Lord declares that Babylon, personified as a woman, will not be inhabited. In other words, her people will be destroyed and the Chaldean empire will come to a permanent end.

[13:20]  ¹¹ tn Or “Arab” (NAB, NASB, NIV); cf. CEV, NLT “nomads.”

[13:20]  ¹² tn יַהֵל (yahel) is probably a corrupted form of יֶאֱהַל (ye’ehal). See GKC 186 §68.k.

[13:20]  ¹³ tn The words “their flocks” are supplied in the translation for clarification. The Hebrew text does not supply the object here, but see Jer 33:12.

[14:29]  ¹⁴ sn The identity of this “club” (also referred to as a “serpent” in the next line) is uncertain. It may refer to an Assyrian king, or to Ahaz. For discussion see J. N. Oswalt, Isaiah (NICOT), 1:331-32. The viper/adder referred to in the second half of the verse is his successor.

[14:29]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “flying burning one.” The designation “burning one” may allude to the serpent’s appearance or the effect of its poisonous bite. (See the note at 6:2.) The qualifier “flying” probably refers to the serpent’s quick, darting movements, though one might propose a homonym here, meaning “biting.” (See J. N. Oswalt, Isaiah [NICOT], 1:332, n. 18.) Some might think in terms of a mythological flying, fire breathing dragon (cf. NAB “a flying saraph”; CEV “a flying fiery dragon”), but this proposal does not make good sense in 30:6, where the phrase “flying burning one” appears again in a list of desert animals.

[22:11]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “look at”; NAB, NRSV “did not look to.”

[22:11]  ¹⁷ 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]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “did not see.”

[25:6]  ¹⁹ sn That is, Mount Zion (see 24:23); cf. TEV; NLT “In Jerusalem.”

[25:6]  ²⁰ tn Heb “And the Lord who commands armies [traditionally, the Lord of hosts] will make for all the nations on this mountain a banquet of meats, a banquet of wine dregs, meats filled with marrow, dregs that are filtered.”

[29:11]  ²¹ tn Heb “vision” (so NASB, NIV, NRSV).

[29:11]  ²² tn Heb “one who knows a/the scroll.”

[39:2]  ²³ tn Heb “was happy with”; NAB, NASB “was pleased”; NIV “received the envoys gladly.”

[39:2]  ²⁴ tn Heb “there was nothing which Hezekiah did not show them in his house and in all his kingdom.”