Yesaya 26:8

26:8 Yes, as your judgments unfold, ¹ 

O Lord, we wait for you.

We desire your fame and reputation to grow. ² 

Yesaya 33:8

33:8 Highways are empty, ³ 

there are no travelers. ⁴ 

Treaties are broken, ⁵ 

witnesses are despised, ⁶ 

human life is treated with disrespect. ⁷ 

Yesaya 43:19

43:19 “Look, I am about to do something new.

Now it begins to happen! ⁸  Do you not recognize ⁹  it?

Yes, I will make a road in the desert

and paths ¹⁰  in the wilderness.

Yesaya 59:8

59:8 They are unfamiliar with peace;

their deeds are unjust. ¹¹ 

They use deceitful methods,

and whoever deals with them is unfamiliar with peace. ¹² 

[26:8]  ¹ tn The Hebrew text has, “yes, the way of your judgments.” The translation assumes that “way” is related to the verb “we wait” as an adverbial accusative (“in the way of your judgments we wait”). מִשְׁפָּטֶיךָ (mishpatekha, “your judgments”) could refer to the Lord’s commandments, in which case one might translate, “as we obey your commands.” However, in verse 9 the same form refers to divine acts of judgment on evildoers.

[26:8]  ² tn Heb “your name and your remembrance [is] the desire of [our?] being.”

[33:8]  ³ tn Or “desolate” (NAB, NASB); NIV, NRSV, NLT “deserted.”

[33:8]  ⁴ tn Heb “the one passing by on the road ceases.”

[33:8]  ⁵ tn Heb “one breaks a treaty”; NAB “Covenants are broken.”

[33:8]  ⁶ tc The Hebrew text reads literally, “he despises cities.” The term עָרִים (’arim, “cities”) is probably a corruption of an original עֵדִים (’edim, “[legal] witnesses”), a reading that is preserved in the Qumran scroll 1QIsa^a. Confusion of dalet (ד) and resh (ר) is a well-attested scribal error.

[33:8]  ⁷ tn Heb “he does not regard human beings.”

[43:19]  ⁸ tn Heb “sprouts up”; NASB “will spring forth.”

[43:19]  ⁹ tn Or “know” (KJV, ASV); NASB “be aware of”; NAB, NIV, NRSV “perceive.”

[43:19]  ¹⁰ tn The Hebrew texts has “streams,” probably under the influence of v. 20. The Qumran scroll 1QIsa^a has נתיבות (“paths”).

[59:8]  ¹¹ tn Heb “a way of peace they do not know, and there is no justice in their pathways.”

[59:8]  ¹² tn Heb “their paths they make crooked, everyone who walks in it does not know peace.”