Yesaya 28:7

28:7 Even these men ¹  stagger because of wine,

they stumble around because of beer –

priests and prophets stagger because of beer,

they are confused ²  because of wine,

they stumble around because of beer;

they stagger while seeing prophetic visions, ³ 

they totter while making legal decisions. ⁴ 

Yesaya 28:21

28:21 For the Lord will rise up, as he did at Mount Perazim, ⁵ 

he will rouse himself, as he did in the Valley of Gibeon, ⁶ 

to accomplish his work,

his peculiar work,

to perform his task,

his strange task. ⁷ 

Yesaya 42:16

42:16 I will lead the blind along an unfamiliar way; ⁸ 

I will guide them down paths they have never traveled. ⁹ 

I will turn the darkness in front of them into light,

and level out the rough ground. ¹⁰ 

This is what I will do for them.

I will not abandon them.

Yesaya 45:19

45:19 I have not spoken in secret,

in some hidden place. ¹¹ 

I did not tell Jacob’s descendants,

‘Seek me in vain!’ ¹² 

I am the Lord,

the one who speaks honestly,

who makes reliable announcements. ¹³ 

Yesaya 47:13

47:13 You are tired out from listening to so much advice. ¹⁴ 

Let them take their stand –

the ones who see omens in the sky,

who gaze at the stars,

who make monthly predictions –

let them rescue you from the disaster that is about to overtake you! ¹⁵ 

Yesaya 51:22

51:22 This is what your sovereign master, ¹⁶  the Lord your God, says:

“Look, I have removed from your hand

the cup of intoxicating wine, ¹⁷ 

the goblet full of my anger. ¹⁸ 

You will no longer have to drink it.

[28:7]  ¹ tn Heb “these.” The demonstrative pronoun anticipates “priests and prophets” two lines later.

[28:7]  ² tn According to HALOT 135 s.v. III בלע, the verb form is derived from בָּלַע (bala’, “confuse”), not the more common בָּלַע (“swallow”). See earlier notes at 3:12 and 9:16.

[28:7]  ³ tn Heb “in the seeing.”

[28:7]  ⁴ tn Heb “[in] giving a decision.”

[28:21]  ⁵ sn This probably alludes to David’s victory over the Philistines at Baal Perazim. See 2 Sam 5:20.

[28:21]  ⁶ sn This probably alludes to the Lord’s victory over the Canaanites at Gibeon, during the days of Joshua. See Josh 10:10-11.

[28:21]  ⁷ sn God’s judgment of his own people is called “his peculiar work” and “his strange task,” because he must deal with them the way he treated their enemies in the past.

[42:16]  ⁸ tn Heb “a way they do not know” (so NASB); NRSV “a road they do not know.”

[42:16]  ⁹ tn Heb “in paths they do not know I will make them walk.”

[42:16]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “and the rough ground into a level place.”

[45:19]  ¹¹ tn Heb “in a place of a land of darkness” (ASV similar); NASB “in some dark land.”

[45:19]  ¹² tn “In vain” translates תֹהוּ (tohu), used here as an adverbial accusative: “for nothing.”

[45:19]  ¹³ tn The translation above assumes that צֶדֶק (tsedeq) and מֵישָׁרִים (mesharim) are adverbial accusatives (see 33:15). If they are taken as direct objects, indicating the content of what is spoken, one might translate, “who proclaims deliverance, who announces justice.”

[47:13]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “you are tired because of the abundance of your advice.”

[47:13]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “let them stand and rescue you – the ones who see omens in the sky, who gaze at the stars, who make known by months – from those things which are coming upon you.”

[51:22]  ¹⁶ tn The Hebrew term translated “sovereign master” here is אֲדֹנָי (’adonay).

[51:22]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “the cup of [= that causes] staggering” (so ASV, NAB, NRSV); NASB “the cup of reeling.”

[51:22]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “the goblet of the cup of my anger.”