Yesaya 45:24

45:24 they will say about me,

“Yes, the Lord is a powerful deliverer.”’” ¹ 

All who are angry at him will cower before him. ² 

Yesaya 49:26

49:26 I will make your oppressors eat their own flesh;

they will get drunk on their own blood, as if it were wine. ³ 

Then all humankind ⁴  will recognize that

I am the Lord, your deliverer,

your protector, ⁵  the powerful ruler of Jacob.” ⁶ 

Yesaya 54:17

54:17 No weapon forged to be used against you will succeed;

you will refute everyone who tries to accuse you. ⁷ 

This is what the Lord will do for his servants –

I will vindicate them,” ⁸ 

says the Lord.

Yesaya 60:12-14

60:12 Indeed, ⁹  nations or kingdoms that do not serve you will perish;

such nations will be totally destroyed. ¹⁰ 

60:13 The splendor of Lebanon will come to you,

its evergreens, firs, and cypresses together,

to beautify my palace; ¹¹ 

I will bestow honor on my throne room. ¹² 

60:14 The children of your oppressors will come bowing to you;

all who treated you with disrespect will bow down at your feet.

They will call you, ‘The City of the Lord,

Zion of the Holy One of Israel.’ ¹³ 

[45:24]  ¹ tn Heb “‘Yes, in the Lord,’ one says about me, ‘is deliverance and strength.’”

[45:24]  ² tn Heb “will come to him and be ashamed.”

[49:26]  ³ sn Verse 26a depicts siege warfare and bloody defeat. The besieged enemy will be so starved they will their own flesh. The bloodstained bodies lying on the blood-soaked battle site will look as if they collapsed in drunkenness.

[49:26]  ⁴ tn Heb “flesh” (so KJV, NASB).

[49:26]  ⁵ tn Heb “your redeemer.” See the note at 41:14.

[49:26]  ⁶ tn Heb “the powerful [one] of Jacob.” See 1:24.

[54:17]  ⁷ tn Heb “and every tongue that rises up for judgment with you will prove to be guilty.”

[54:17]  ⁸ tn Heb “this is the inheritance of the servants of the Lord, and their vindication from me.”

[60:12]  ⁹ tn Or “For” (KJV, NAB, NASB, NIV, NRSV, NLT); TEV “But.”

[60:12]  ¹⁰ tn The infinitive absolute appears before the finite verb for emphasis.

[60:13]  ¹¹ tn Or “holy place, sanctuary.”

[60:13]  ¹² tn Heb “the place of my feet.” See Ezek 43:7, where the Lord’s throne is called the “place of the soles of my feet.”

[60:14]  ¹³ sn See the note on the phrase “the Holy One of Israel” in 1:4.