Yesaya 7:6

7:6 They say, “Let’s attack Judah, terrorize it, and conquer it. ¹  Then we’ll set up the son of Tabeel as its king.” ² 

Yesaya 14:8

14:8 The evergreens also rejoice over your demise, ³ 

as do the cedars of Lebanon, singing, ⁴ 

‘Since you fell asleep, ⁵ 

no woodsman comes up to chop us down!’ ⁶ 

Yesaya 22:1

The Lord Will Judge Jerusalem

22:1 Here is a message about the Valley of Vision: ⁷ 

What is the reason ⁸ 

that all of you go up to the rooftops?

Yesaya 34:13

34:13 Her fortresses will be overgrown with thorns;

thickets and weeds will grow ⁹  in her fortified cities.

Jackals will settle there;

ostriches will live there. ¹⁰ 

Yesaya 57:7

57:7 On every high, elevated hill you prepare your bed;

you go up there to offer sacrifices.

[7:6]  ¹ tn Heb “and let us break it open for ourselves”; NASB “make for ourselves a breach in its walls”; NLT “fight our way into.”

[7:6]  ² tn Heb “and we will make the son of Tabeel king in its midst.”

[7:6]  sn The precise identity of this would-be puppet king is unknown. He may have been a Syrian official or the ruler of one of the small neighboring states. See Y. Aharoni, Land of the Bible, 370.

[14:8]  ³ tn Heb “concerning you.”

[14:8]  ⁴ tn The word “singing” is supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons. Note that the personified trees speak in the second half of the verse.

[14:8]  ⁵ tn Heb “lay down” (in death); cf. NAB “laid to rest.”

[14:8]  ⁶ tn Heb “the [wood]cutter does not come up against us.”

[22:1]  ⁷ sn The following message pertains to Jerusalem. The significance of referring to the city as the Valley of Vision is uncertain. Perhaps the Hinnom Valley is in view, but why it is associated with a prophetic revelatory “vision” is not entirely clear. Maybe the Hinnom Valley is called this because the destruction that will take place there is the focal point of this prophetic message (see v. 5).

[22:1]  ⁸ tn Heb “What to you, then?”

[34:13]  ⁹ tn The words “will grow” are supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[34:13]  ¹⁰ tc Heb “and she will be a settlement for wild dogs, a dwelling place for ostriches.” The translation assumes an emendation of חָצִיר (khatsir, “grass”) to חָצֵר (khatser, “settlement”). One of the Qumran scrolls of Isaiah (1QIsa^a) supports this emendation (cf. HALOT 344 s.v. II חָצִיר)