Yesaya 7:13

7:13 So Isaiah replied, ¹  “Pay attention, ²  family ³  of David. ⁴  Do you consider it too insignificant to try the patience of men? Is that why you are also trying the patience of my God?

Yesaya 11:1

An Ideal King Establishes a Kingdom of Peace

11:1 A shoot will grow out of Jesse’s ⁵  root stock,

a bud will sprout ⁶  from his roots.

Yesaya 14:11

14:11 Your splendor ⁷  has been brought down to Sheol,

as well as the sound of your stringed instruments. ⁸ 

You lie on a bed of maggots,

with a blanket of worms over you. ⁹ 

Yesaya 28:29

28:29 This also comes from the Lord who commands armies,

who gives supernatural guidance and imparts great wisdom. ¹⁰ 

Yesaya 29:12

29:12 Or when they hand the scroll to one who can’t read ¹¹  and say, “Read this,” he says, “I can’t read.” ¹² 

Yesaya 29:17

Changes are Coming

29:17 In just a very short time ¹³ 

Lebanon will turn into an orchard,

and the orchard will be considered a forest. ¹⁴ 

Yesaya 38:16

38:16 O sovereign master, your decrees can give men life;

may years of life be restored to me. ¹⁵ 

Restore my health ¹⁶  and preserve my life.’

Yesaya 38:22

38:22 Hezekiah said, “What is the confirming sign that I will go up to the Lord’s temple?”

Yesaya 39:7

39:7 ‘Some of your very own descendants whom you father ¹⁷  will be taken away and will be made eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.’”

Yesaya 54:3

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

your children will conquer ¹⁸  nations

and will resettle desolate cities.

Yesaya 62:12

62:12 They will be called, “The Holy People,

the Ones Protected ¹⁹  by the Lord.”

You will be called, “Sought After,

City Not Abandoned.”

[7:13]  ¹ tn Heb “and he said.” The subject is unexpressed, but the reference to “my God” at the end of the verse indicates the prophet is speaking.

[7:13]  ² tn The verb is second plural in form, because the prophet addresses the whole family of David. He continues to use the plural in v. 14 (with one exception, see the notes on that verse), but then switches back to the second singular (addressing Ahaz specifically) in vv. 16-17.

[7:13]  ³ tn Heb “house.” See the note at v. 2.

[7:13]  ⁴ sn The address to the “house of David” is designed to remind Ahaz and his royal court of the protection promised to them through the Davidic covenant. The king’s refusal to claim God’s promise magnifies his lack of faith.

[11:1]  ⁵ sn The text mentions David’s father Jesse, instead of the great king himself. Perhaps this is done for rhetorical reasons to suggest that a new David, not just another disappointing Davidic descendant, will arise. Other prophets call the coming ideal Davidic king “David” or picture him as the second coming of David, as it were. See Jer 30:9; Ezek 34:23-24; 37:24-25; Hos 3:5; and Mic 5:2 (as well as the note there).

[11:1]  ⁶ tc The Hebrew text has יִפְרֶה (yifreh, “will bear fruit,” from פָּרָה, parah), but the ancient versions, as well as the parallelism suggest that יִפְרַח (yifrakh, “will sprout”, from פָּרַח, parakh) is the better reading here. See J. N. Oswalt, Isaiah (NICOT), 1:276, n. 2.

[14:11]  ⁷ tn Or “pride” (NCV, CEV); KJV, NIV, NRSV “pomp.”

[14:11]  ⁸ tn Or “harps” (NAB, NIV, NRSV).

[14:11]  ⁹ tn Heb “under you maggots are spread out, and worms are your cover.”

[28:29]  ¹⁰ sn Verses 23-29 emphasize that God possesses great wisdom and has established a natural order. Evidence of this can be seen in the way farmers utilize divinely imparted wisdom to grow and harvest crops. God’s dealings with his people will exhibit this same kind of wisdom and order. Judgment will be accomplished according to a divinely ordered timetable and, while severe enough, will not be excessive. Judgment must come, just as planting inevitably follows plowing. God will, as it were, thresh his people, but he will not crush them to the point where they will be of no use to him.

[29:12]  ¹¹ tn Heb “and if the scroll is handed to one who does not know a scroll.”

[29:12]  ¹² tn Heb “I do not know a scroll.”

[29:17]  ¹³ tn The Hebrew text phrases this as a rhetorical question, “Is it not yet a little, a short [time]?”

[29:17]  ¹⁴ sn The meaning of this verse is debated, but it seems to depict a reversal in fortunes. The mighty forest of Lebanon (symbolic of the proud and powerful, see 2:13; 10:34) will be changed into a common orchard, while the common orchard (symbolic of the oppressed and lowly) will grow into a great forest. See J. N. Oswalt, Isaiah (NICOT), 1:538.

[38:16]  ¹⁵ tn The translation offered here is purely speculative. The text as it stands is meaningless and probably corrupt. It reads literally, “O lord, on account of them [the suffix is masculine plural], they live, and to all in them [the suffix is feminine plural], life of my spirit.”

[38:16]  ¹⁶ tn The prefixed verbal form could be taken as indicative, “you restore my health,” but the following imperatival form suggests it be understood as an imperfect of request.

[39:7]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “Some of your sons, who go out from you, whom you father.”

[54:3]  ¹⁸ tn Or “take possession of”; NAB “shall dispossess.”

[62:12]  ¹⁹ tn Or “the redeemed of the Lord” (KJV, NAB).