Yesaya 5:5

5:5 Now I will inform you

what I am about to do to my vineyard:

I will remove its hedge and turn it into pasture, ¹ 

I will break its wall and allow animals to graze there. ² 

Yesaya 63:18

63:18 For a short time your special ³  nation possessed a land, ⁴ 

but then our adversaries knocked down ⁵  your holy sanctuary.

Yesaya 64:11

64:11 Our holy temple, our pride and joy, ⁶ 

the place where our ancestors praised you,

has been burned with fire;

all our prized possessions have been destroyed. ⁷ 

[5:5]  ¹ tn Heb “and it will become [a place for] grazing.” בָּעַר (ba’ar, “grazing”) is a homonym of the more often used verb “to burn.”

[5:5]  ² tn Heb “and it will become a trampled place” (NASB “trampled ground”).

[63:18]  ³ tn Or “holy” (ASV, NASB, NRSV, TEV, NLT).

[63:18]  ⁴ tn Heb “for a short time they had a possession, the people of your holiness.”

[63:18]  ⁵ tn Heb “your adversaries trampled on.”

[64:11]  ⁶ tn Heb “our source of pride.”

[64:11]  ⁷ tn Or “all that we valued has become a ruin.”