Yesaya 28:22

28:22 So now, do not mock,

or your chains will become heavier!

For I have heard a message about decreed destruction,

from the sovereign master, the Lord who commands armies, against the entire land. ¹ 

Yesaya 38:17

38:17 “Look, the grief I experienced was for my benefit. ² 

You delivered me ³  from the pit of oblivion. ⁴ 

For you removed all my sins from your sight. ⁵ 

Yesaya 54:16

54:16 Look, I create the craftsman,

who fans the coals into a fire

and forges a weapon. ⁶ 

I create the destroyer so he might devastate.

Yesaya 60:18

60:18 Sounds of violence ⁷  will no longer be heard in your land,

or the sounds of ⁸  destruction and devastation within your borders.

You will name your walls, ‘Deliverance,’

and your gates, ‘Praise.’

[28:22]  ¹ tn Or “the whole earth” (KJV, ASV, NAB, NCV).

[38:17]  ² tn Heb “Look, for peace bitterness was to me bitter”; NAB “thus is my bitterness transformed into peace.”

[38:17]  ³ tc The Hebrew text reads, “you loved my soul,” but this does not fit syntactically with the following prepositional phrase. חָשַׁקְתָּ (khashaqta, “you loved”), may reflect an aural error; most emend the form to חָשַׂכְת, (khasakht, “you held back”).

[38:17]  ⁴ tn בְּלִי (bÿli) most often appears as a negation, meaning “without,” suggesting the meaning “nothingness, oblivion,” here. Some translate “decay” or “destruction.”

[38:17]  ⁵ tn Heb “for you threw behind your back all my sins.”

[54:16]  ⁶ tn Heb “who brings out an implement for his work.”

[60:18]  ⁷ tn The words “sounds of” are supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[60:18]  ⁸ tn The words “sounds of” are supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons.