Yesaya 9:15

9:15 The leaders and the highly respected people ¹  are the head,

the prophets who teach lies are the tail.

Yesaya 14:10

14:10 All of them respond to you, saying:

‘You too have become weak like us!

You have become just like us!

Yesaya 19:9

19:9 Those who make clothes from combed flax will be embarrassed;

those who weave will turn pale. ² 

Yesaya 42:21

42:21 The Lord wanted to exhibit his justice

by magnifying his law and displaying it. ³ 

Yesaya 44:10

44:10 Who forms a god and casts an idol

that will prove worthless? ⁴ 

Yesaya 50:5

50:5 The sovereign Lord has spoken to me clearly; ⁵ 

I have not rebelled,

I have not turned back.

Yesaya 57:12

57:12 I will denounce your so-called righteousness and your deeds, ⁶ 

but they will not help you.

[9:15]  ¹ tn Heb “the elder and the one lifted up with respect to the face.” For another example of the Hebrew idiom, see 2 Kgs 5:1.

[19:9]  ² tn BDB 301 s.v. חוֹרִי suggests the meaning “white stuff” for חוֹרִי (khori); the Qumran scroll 1QIsa^a has חָוֵרוּ (khaveru), probably a Qal perfect, third plural form of חוּר, (khur, “be white, pale”). See HALOT 299 s.v. I חור. The latter reading is assumed in the translation above.

[42:21]  ³ tn Heb “The Lord was pleased for the sake of his righteousness [or “justice”], he was magnifying [the] law and was making [it] glorious.” The Lord contrasts his good intentions for the people with their present crisis (v. 22). To demonstrate his just character and attract the nations, the Lord wanted to showcase his law among and through Israel (Deut 4:5-8). But Israel disobeyed (v. 24) and failed to carry out their commission.

[44:10]  ⁴ tn The rhetorical question is sarcastic. The sense is, “Who is foolish enough…?”

[50:5]  ⁵ tn Or perhaps, “makes me obedient.” The text reads literally, “has opened for me an ear.”

[57:12]  ⁶ tn Heb “I, I will declare your righteousness and your deeds.”