Yesaya 1:4

1:4 ¹ The sinful nation is as good as dead, ² 

the people weighed down by evil deeds.

They are offspring who do wrong,

children ³  who do wicked things.

They have abandoned the Lord,

and rejected the Holy One of Israel. ⁴ 

They are alienated from him. ⁵ 

Yesaya 17:6

17:6 There will be some left behind,

like when an olive tree is beaten –

two or three ripe olives remain toward the very top,

four or five on its fruitful branches,”

says the Lord God of Israel.

Yesaya 22:25

22:25 “At that time,” ⁶  says the Lord who commands armies, “the peg fastened into a solid place will come loose. It will be cut off and fall, and the load hanging on it will be cut off.” ⁷  Indeed, ⁸  the Lord has spoken.

Yesaya 31:4

The Lord Will Defend Zion

31:4 Indeed, this is what the Lord says to me:

“The Lord will be like a growling lion,

like a young lion growling over its prey. ⁹ 

Though a whole group of shepherds gathers against it,

it is not afraid of their shouts

or intimidated by their yelling. ¹⁰ 

In this same way the Lord who commands armies will descend

to do battle on Mount Zion and on its hill. ¹¹ 

Yesaya 33:15

33:15 The one who lives ¹²  uprightly ¹³ 

and speaks honestly;

the one who refuses to profit from oppressive measures

and rejects a bribe; ¹⁴ 

the one who does not plot violent crimes ¹⁵ 

and does not seek to harm others ¹⁶  –

Yesaya 44:15

44:15 A man uses it to make a fire; ¹⁷ 

he takes some of it and warms himself.

Yes, he kindles a fire and bakes bread.

Then he makes a god and worships it;

he makes an idol and bows down to it. ¹⁸ 

Yesaya 45:20

45:20 Gather together and come!

Approach together, you refugees from the nations!

Those who carry wooden idols know nothing,

those who pray to a god that cannot deliver.

Yesaya 51:3

51:3 Certainly the Lord will console Zion;

he will console all her ruins.

He will make her wilderness like Eden,

her desert like the Garden of the Lord.

Happiness and joy will be restored to ¹⁹  her,

thanksgiving and the sound of music.

Yesaya 51:6

51:6 Look up at the sky!

Look at the earth below!

For the sky will dissipate ²⁰  like smoke,

and the earth will wear out like clothes;

its residents will die like gnats.

But the deliverance I give ²¹  is permanent;

the vindication I provide ²²  will not disappear. ²³ 

Yesaya 57:13

57:13 When you cry out for help, let your idols ²⁴  help you!

The wind blows them all away, ²⁵ 

a breeze carries them away. ²⁶ 

But the one who looks to me for help ²⁷  will inherit the land

and will have access to ²⁸  my holy mountain.”

Yesaya 58:3

58:3 They lament, ²⁹  ‘Why don’t you notice when we fast?

Why don’t you pay attention when we humble ourselves?’

Look, at the same time you fast, you satisfy your selfish desires, ³⁰ 

you oppress your workers. ³¹ 

Yesaya 58:5

58:5 Is this really the kind of fasting I want? ³² 

Do I want a day when people merely humble themselves, ³³ 

bowing their heads like a reed

and stretching out ³⁴  on sackcloth and ashes?

Is this really what you call a fast,

a day that is pleasing to the Lord?

Yesaya 58:7

58:7 I want you ³⁵  to share your food with the hungry

and to provide shelter for homeless, oppressed people. ³⁶ 

When you see someone naked, clothe him!

Don’t turn your back on your own flesh and blood! ³⁷ 

Yesaya 65:13

65:13 So this is what the sovereign Lord says:

“Look, my servants will eat, but you will be hungry!

Look, my servants will drink, but you will be thirsty!

Look, my servants will rejoice, but you will be humiliated!

Yesaya 65:16

65:16 Whoever pronounces a blessing in the earth ³⁸ 

will do so in the name of the faithful God; ³⁹ 

whoever makes an oath in the earth

will do so in the name of the faithful God. ⁴⁰ 

For past problems will be forgotten;

I will no longer think about them. ⁴¹ 

Yesaya 66:24

66:24 “They will go out and observe the corpses of those who rebelled against me, for the maggots that eat them will not die, ⁴²  and the fire that consumes them will not die out. ⁴³  All people will find the sight abhorrent.” ⁴⁴ 

[1:4]  ¹ sn Having summoned the witnesses and announced the Lord’s accusation against Israel, Isaiah mourns the nation’s impending doom. The third person references to the Lord in the second half of the verse suggest that the quotation from the Lord (cf. vv. 2-3) has concluded.

[1:4]  ² tn Heb “Woe [to the] sinful nation.” The Hebrew term הוֹי, (hoy, “woe, ah”) was used in funeral laments (see 1 Kgs 13:30; Jer 22:18; 34:5) and carries the connotation of death. In highly dramatic fashion the prophet acts out Israel’s funeral in advance, emphasizing that their demise is inevitable if they do not repent soon.

[1:4]  ³ tn Or “sons” (NASB). The prophet contrasts four terms of privilege – nation, people, offspring, children – with four terms that depict Israel’s sinful condition in Isaiah’s day – sinful, evil, wrong, wicked (see J. A. Motyer, The Prophecy of Isaiah, 43).

[1:4]  ⁴ sn Holy One of Israel is one of Isaiah’s favorite divine titles for God. It pictures the Lord as the sovereign king who rules over his covenant people and exercises moral authority over them.

[1:4]  ⁵ tn Heb “they are estranged backward.” The LXX omits this statement, which presents syntactical problems and seems to be outside the synonymous parallelistic structure of the verse.

[22:25]  ⁶ tn Or “In that day” (KJV).

[22:25]  ⁷ sn Eliakim’s authority, though seemingly secure, will eventually be removed, and with it his family’s prominence.

[22:25]  ⁸ tn Or “for” (KJV, NAB, NASB, NRSV).

[31:4]  ⁹ tn Heb “As a lion growls, a young lion over its prey.” In the Hebrew text the opening comparison is completed later in the verse (“so the Lord will come down…”), after a parenthesis describing how fearless the lion is. The present translation divides the verse into three sentences for English stylistic reasons.

[31:4]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “Though there is summoned against it fullness of shepherds, by their voice it is not terrified, and to their noise it does not respond.”

[31:4]  ¹¹ tn Some prefer to translate the phrase לִצְבֹּא עַל (litsbo’ ’al) as “fight against,” but the following context pictures the Lord defending, not attacking, Zion.

[33:15]  ¹² tn Heb “walks” (so NASB, NIV).

[33:15]  ¹³ tn Or, possibly, “justly”; NAB “who practices virtue.”

[33:15]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “[who] shakes off his hands from grabbing hold of a bribe.”

[33:15]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “[who] shuts his ear from listening to bloodshed.”

[33:15]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “[who] closes his eyes from seeing evil.”

[44:15]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “and it becomes burning [i.e., firewood] for a man”; NAB “to serve man for fuel.”

[44:15]  ¹⁸ tn Or perhaps, “them.”

[51:3]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “found in” (so NAB, NASB, NIV, NRSV).

[51:6]  ²⁰ tn Heb “will be torn in pieces.” The perfect indicates the certitude of the event, from the Lord’s rhetorical perspective.

[51:6]  ²¹ tn Heb “my deliverance.” The same Hebrew word can also be translated “salvation” (so KJV, NAB, NASB, NIV, NRSV, NLT); cf. CEV “victory.”

[51:6]  ²² tn Heb “my righteousness [or “vindication”].”

[51:6]  ²³ tn Heb “will not be shattered [or “dismayed”].”

[57:13]  ²⁴ tn The Hebrew text has קִבּוּצַיִךְ (qibbutsayikh, “your gatherings”), an otherwise unattested noun from the verbal root קָבַץ (qavats, “gather”). Perhaps this alludes to their religious assemblies and by metonymy to their rituals. Since idolatry is a prominent theme in the context, some understand this as a reference to a collection of idols. The second half of the verse also favors this view.

[57:13]  ²⁵ tn Heb “all of them a wind lifts up.”

[57:13]  ²⁶ tn Heb “a breath takes [them] away.”

[57:13]  ²⁷ tn Or “seeks refuge in me.” “Seeking refuge” is a metonymy for “being loyal to.”

[57:13]  ²⁸ tn Heb “possess, own.” The point seems to be that he will have free access to God’s presence, as if God’s temple mount were his personal possession.

[58:3]  ²⁹ tn The words “they lament” are supplied in the translation for clarification.

[58:3]  ³⁰ tn Heb “you find pleasure”; NASB “you find your desire.”

[58:3]  ³¹ tn Or perhaps, “debtors.” See HALOT 865 s.v. * עָצֵב.

[58:5]  ³² tn Heb “choose” (so NASB, NRSV); NAB “wish.”

[58:5]  ³³ tn Heb “a day when man humbles himself.” The words “Do I want” are supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[58:5]  ³⁴ tn Or “making [their] bed.”

[58:7]  ³⁵ tn Heb “Is it not?” The rhetorical question here expects a positive answer, “It is!”

[58:7]  ³⁶ tn Heb “and afflicted [ones], homeless [ones] you should bring [into] a house.” On the meaning of מְרוּדִים (mÿrudim, “homeless”) see HALOT 633 s.v. *מָרוּד.

[58:7]  ³⁷ tn Heb “and from your flesh do not hide yourself.”

[65:16]  ³⁸ tn Or “in the land” (NIV, NCV, NRSV). The same phrase occurs again later in this verse, with the same options.

[65:16]  ³⁹ tn Heb “will pronounce a blessing by the God of truth.”

[65:16]  ⁴⁰ tn Heb “will take an oath by the God of truth.”

[65:16]  ⁴¹ tn Heb “for the former distresses will be forgotten, and they will be hidden from my eyes.”

[66:24]  ⁴² tn Heb “for their worm will not die.”

[66:24]  ⁴³ tn Heb “and their fire will not be extinguished.”

[66:24]  ⁴⁴ tn Heb “and they will be an abhorrence to all flesh.”

[66:24]  sn This verse depicts a huge mass burial site where the seemingly endless pile of maggot-infested corpses are being burned.