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 3:24

3:24 A putrid stench will replace the smell of spices, ⁵ 

a rope will replace a belt,

baldness will replace braided locks of hair,

a sackcloth garment will replace a fine robe,

and a prisoner’s brand will replace beauty.

Yesaya 6:11

6:11 I replied, “How long, sovereign master?” He said,

“Until cities are in ruins and unpopulated,

and houses are uninhabited,

and the land is ruined and devastated,

Yesaya 7:4

7:4 Tell him, ‘Make sure you stay calm! ⁶  Don’t be afraid! Don’t be intimidated ⁷  by these two stubs of smoking logs, ⁸  or by the raging anger of Rezin, Syria, and the son of Remaliah.

Yesaya 9:17

9:17 So the sovereign master was not pleased ⁹  with their young men,

he took no pity ¹⁰  on their orphans and widows;

for the whole nation was godless ¹¹  and did wicked things, ¹² 

every mouth was speaking disgraceful words. ¹³ 

Despite all this, his anger does not subside,

and his hand is ready to strike again. ¹⁴ 

Yesaya 10:24

10:24 So ¹⁵  here is what the sovereign master, the Lord who commands armies, says: “My people who live in Zion, do not be afraid of Assyria, even though they beat you with a club and lift their cudgel against you as Egypt did. ¹⁶ 

Yesaya 13:20

13:20 No one will live there again;

no one will ever reside there again. ¹⁷ 

No bedouin ¹⁸  will camp ¹⁹  there,

no shepherds will rest their flocks ²⁰  there.

Yesaya 14:2

14:2 Nations will take them and bring them back to their own place. Then the family of Jacob will make foreigners their servants as they settle in the Lord’s land. ²¹  They will make their captors captives and rule over the ones who oppressed them.

Yesaya 16:8

16:8 For the fields of Heshbon are dried up,

as well as the vines of Sibmah.

The rulers of the nations trample all over its vines,

which reach Jazer and spread to the desert;

their shoots spread out and cross the sea.

Yesaya 23:15

23:15 At that time ²²  Tyre will be forgotten for seventy years, ²³  the typical life span of a king. ²⁴  At the end of seventy years Tyre will try to attract attention again, like the prostitute in the popular song: ²⁵ 

Yesaya 27:11

27:11 When its branches get brittle, ²⁶  they break;

women come and use them for kindling. ²⁷ 

For these people lack understanding, ²⁸ 

therefore the one who made them has no compassion on them;

the one who formed them has no mercy on them.

Yesaya 33:15

33:15 The one who lives ²⁹  uprightly ³⁰ 

and speaks honestly;

the one who refuses to profit from oppressive measures

and rejects a bribe; ³¹ 

the one who does not plot violent crimes ³² 

and does not seek to harm others ³³  –

Yesaya 34:16

34:16 Carefully read the scroll of the Lord! ³⁴ 

Not one of these creatures will be missing, ³⁵ 

none will lack a mate. ³⁶ 

For the Lord has issued the decree, ³⁷ 

and his own spirit gathers them. ³⁸ 

Yesaya 37:27

37:27 Their residents are powerless; ³⁹ 

they are terrified and ashamed.

They are as short-lived as plants in the field

or green vegetation. ⁴⁰ 

They are as short-lived as grass on the rooftops ⁴¹ 

when it is scorched by the east wind. ⁴² 

Yesaya 43:2

43:2 When you pass through the waters, I am with you;

when you pass ⁴³  through the streams, they will not overwhelm you.

When you walk through the fire, you will not be burned;

the flames will not harm ⁴⁴  you.

Yesaya 44:13

44:13 A carpenter takes measurements; ⁴⁵ 

he marks out an outline of its form; ⁴⁶ 

he scrapes ⁴⁷  it with chisels,

and marks it with a compass.

He patterns it after the human form, ⁴⁸ 

like a well-built human being,

and puts it in a shrine. ⁴⁹ 

Yesaya 45:18

45:18 For this is what the Lord says,

the one who created the sky –

he is the true God, ⁵⁰ 

the one who formed the earth and made it;

he established it,

he did not create it without order, ⁵¹ 

he formed it to be inhabited –

“I am the Lord, I have no peer.

Yesaya 46:7

46:7 They put it on their shoulder and carry it;

they put it in its place and it just stands there;

it does not ⁵²  move from its place.

Even when someone cries out to it, it does not reply;

it does not deliver him from his distress.

Yesaya 51:3

51:3 Certainly the Lord will console Zion;

he will console all her ruins.

He will make her wilderness like Eden,

her desert like the Garden of the Lord.

Happiness and joy will be restored to ⁵³  her,

thanksgiving and the sound of music.

[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.

[3:24]  ⁵ tn Heb “and it will be in place of spices there will be a stench.” The nouns for “spices” and “stench” are right next to each other in the MT for emphatic contrast. The verb that introduces this verse serves as a discourse particle and is untranslated; see note on “in the future” in 2:2.

[7:4]  ⁶ tn Heb “guard yourself and be quiet,” but the two verbs should be coordinated.

[7:4]  ⁷ tn Heb “and let not your heart be weak”; ASV “neither let thy heart be faint.”

[7:4]  ⁸ sn The derogatory metaphor indicates that the power of Rezin and Pekah is ready to die out.

[9:17]  ⁹ tn The Qumran scroll 1QIsa^a has לא יחמול (“he did not spare”) which is an obvious attempt to tighten the parallelism (note “he took no pity” in the next line). Instead of taking שָׂמַח (samakh) in one of its well attested senses (“rejoice over, be pleased with”), some propose, with support from Arabic, a rare homonymic root meaning “be merciful.”

[9:17]  ¹⁰ tn The translation understands the prefixed verbs יִשְׂמַח (yismakh) and יְרַחֵם (yÿrakhem) as preterites without vav (ו) consecutive. (See v. 11 and the note on “he stirred up.”)

[9:17]  ¹¹ tn Or “defiled”; cf. ASV “profane”; NAB “profaned”; NIV “ungodly.”

[9:17]  ¹² tn מֵרַע (mera’) is a Hiphil participle from רָעַע (ra’a’, “be evil”). The intransitive Hiphil has an exhibitive force here, indicating that they exhibited outwardly the evidence of an inward condition by committing evil deeds.

[9:17]  ¹³ tn Or “foolishness” (NASB), here in a moral-ethical sense.

[9:17]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “in all this his anger is not turned, and still his hand is outstretched.”

[9:17]  sn See the note at 9:12.

[10:24]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “therefore.” The message that follows is one of encouragement, for it focuses on the eventual destruction of the Assyrians. Consequently “therefore” relates back to vv. 5-21, not to vv. 22-23, which must be viewed as a brief parenthesis in an otherwise positive speech.

[10:24]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “in the way [or “manner”] of Egypt.”

[13:20]  ¹⁷ 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]  ¹⁸ tn Or “Arab” (NAB, NASB, NIV); cf. CEV, NLT “nomads.”

[13:20]  ¹⁹ tn יַהֵל (yahel) is probably a corrupted form of יֶאֱהַל (ye’ehal). See GKC 186 §68.k.

[13:20]  ²⁰ 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.

[14:2]  ²¹ tn Heb “and the house of Jacob will take possession of them [i.e., the nations], on the land of the Lord, as male servants and female servants.”

[23:15]  ²² tn Or “in that day” (KJV). The verb that introduces this verse serves as a discourse particle and is untranslated; see note on “in the future” in 2:2.

[23:15]  ²³ sn The number seventy is probably used in a stereotypical, nonliteral sense here to indicate a long period of time that satisfies completely the demands of God’s judgment.

[23:15]  ²⁴ tn Heb “like the days of a king.”

[23:15]  ²⁵ tn Heb “At the end of seventy years it will be for Tyre like the song of the prostitute.”

[27:11]  ²⁶ tn Heb “are dry” (so NASB, NIV, NRSV).

[27:11]  ²⁷ tn Heb “women come [and] light it.” The city is likened to a dead tree with dried up branches that is only good for firewood.

[27:11]  ²⁸ tn Heb “for not a people of understanding [is] he.”

[33:15]  ²⁹ tn Heb “walks” (so NASB, NIV).

[33:15]  ³⁰ tn Or, possibly, “justly”; NAB “who practices virtue.”

[33:15]  ³¹ tn Heb “[who] shakes off his hands from grabbing hold of a bribe.”

[33:15]  ³² tn Heb “[who] shuts his ear from listening to bloodshed.”

[33:15]  ³³ tn Heb “[who] closes his eyes from seeing evil.”

[34:16]  ³⁴ tn Heb “Seek from upon the scroll of the Lord and read.”

[34:16]  sn It is uncertain what particular scroll is referred to here. Perhaps the phrase simply refers to this prophecy and is an admonition to pay close attention to the details of the message.

[34:16]  ³⁵ tn Heb “one from these will not be missing.” הֵנָּה (hennah, “these”) is feminine plural in the Hebrew text. It may refer only to the birds mentioned in v. 15b or may include all of the creatures listed in vv. 14b-15 (all of which are identified with feminine nouns).

[34:16]  ³⁶ tn Heb “each its mate they will not lack.”

[34:16]  ³⁷ tc The Hebrew text reads literally, “for a mouth, it has commanded.” The Qumran scroll 1QIsa^a and a few medieval mss have פִּיהוּ (pihu, “his mouth [has commanded]”), while a few other medieval mss read פִּי יְהוָה (pi yÿhvah, “the mouth of the Lord [has commanded]”).

[34:16]  ³⁸ tn Heb “and his spirit, he gathers them.” The pronominal suffix (“them”) is feminine plural, referring to the birds mentioned in v. 15b or to all of the creatures listed in vv. 14b-15 (all of which are identified with feminine nouns).

[37:27]  ³⁹ tn Heb “short of hand”; KJV, ASV “of small power”; NASB “short of strength.”

[37:27]  ⁴⁰ tn Heb “they are plants in the field and green vegetation.” The metaphor emphasizes how short-lived these seemingly powerful cities really were. See Ps 90:5-6; Isa 40:6-8, 24.

[37:27]  ⁴¹ tn Heb “[they are] grass on the rooftops.” See the preceding note.

[37:27]  ⁴² tc The Hebrew text has “scorched before the standing grain” (perhaps meaning “before it reaches maturity”), but it is preferable to emend קָמָה (qamah, “standing grain”) to קָדִים (qadim, “east wind”) with the support of 1Q Isa^a; cf. J. N. Oswalt, Isaiah (NICOT), 1:657, n. 8.

[43:2]  ⁴³ tn The verb is understood by ellipsis (note the preceding line).

[43:2]  ⁴⁴ tn Heb “burn” (so NASB); NAB, NRSV, NLT “consume”; NIV “set you ablaze.”

[44:13]  ⁴⁵ tn Heb “stretches out a line” (ASV similar); NIV “measures with a line.”

[44:13]  ⁴⁶ tn Heb “he makes an outline with the [?].” The noun שֶׂרֶד (shered) occurs only here; it apparently refers to some type of tool or marker. Cf. KJV “with a line”; ASV “with a pencil”; NAB, NRSV “with a stylus”; NASB “with red chalk”; NIV “with a marker.”

[44:13]  ⁴⁷ tn Heb “works” (so NASB) or “fashions” (so NRSV); NIV “he roughs it out.”

[44:13]  ⁴⁸ tn Heb “he makes it like the pattern of a man”; NAB “like a man in appearance.”

[44:13]  ⁴⁹ tn Heb “like the glory of man to sit [in] a house”; NIV “that it may dwell in a shrine.”

[45:18]  ⁵⁰ tn Heb “he [is] the God.” The article here indicates uniqueness.

[45:18]  ⁵¹ tn Or “unformed.” Gen 1:2 describes the world as “unformed” (תֹהוּ, tohu) prior to God’s creative work, but God then formed the world and made it fit for habitation.

[46:7]  ⁵² tn Or perhaps, “cannot,” here and in the following two lines. The imperfect forms can indicate capability.

[51:3]  ⁵³ tn Heb “found in” (so NAB, NASB, NIV, NRSV).