Yesaya 3:6

3:6 Indeed, a man will grab his brother

right in his father’s house ¹  and say, ² 

‘You own a coat –

you be our leader!

This heap of ruins will be under your control.’ ³ 

Yesaya 5:16

5:16 The Lord who commands armies will be exalted ⁴  when he punishes, ⁵ 

the sovereign God’s authority will be recognized when he judges. ⁶ 

Yesaya 13:13

13:13 So I will shake the heavens, ⁷ 

and the earth will shake loose from its foundation, ⁸ 

because of the fury of the Lord who commands armies,

in the day he vents his raging anger. ⁹ 

Yesaya 30:27

30:27 Look, the name ¹⁰  of the Lord comes from a distant place

in raging anger and awesome splendor. ¹¹ 

He speaks angrily

and his word is like destructive fire. ¹² 

Yesaya 36:10

36:10 Furthermore it was by the command of the Lord that I marched up against this land to destroy it. The Lord told me, ‘March up against this land and destroy it!’”’” ¹³ 

Yesaya 37:8

37:8 When the chief adviser heard the king of Assyria had departed from Lachish, he left and went to Libnah, where the king was campaigning. ¹⁴ 

Yesaya 39:4

39:4 Isaiah ¹⁵  asked, “What have they seen in your palace?” Hezekiah replied, “They have seen everything in my palace. I showed them everything in my treasuries.”

Yesaya 41:22

41:22 “Let them produce evidence! Let them tell us what will happen!

Tell us about your earlier predictive oracles, ¹⁶ 

so we may examine them ¹⁷  and see how they were fulfilled. ¹⁸ 

Or decree for us some future events!

Yesaya 42:13

42:13 The Lord emerges like a hero,

like a warrior he inspires himself for battle; ¹⁹ 

he shouts, yes, he yells,

he shows his enemies his power. ²⁰ 

Yesaya 45:4

45:4 For the sake of my servant Jacob,

Israel, my chosen one,

I call you by name

and give you a title of respect, even though you do not recognize ²¹  me.

Yesaya 48:14

48:14 All of you, gather together and listen!

Who among them ²²  announced these things?

The Lord’s ally ²³  will carry out his desire against Babylon;

he will exert his power against the Babylonians. ²⁴ 

[3:6]  ¹ tn Heb “[in] the house of his father” (so ASV); NIV “at his father’s home.”

[3:6]  ² tn The words “and say” are supplied for stylistic reasons.

[3:6]  ³ tn Heb “your hand”; NASB “under your charge.”

[3:6]  sn The man’s motives are selfish. He tells his brother to assume leadership because he thinks he has some wealth to give away.

[5:16]  ⁴ tn Or “elevated”; TEV “the Lord Almighty shows his greatness.”

[5:16]  ⁵ tn Heb “by judgment/justice.” When God justly punishes the evildoers denounced in the preceding verses, he will be recognized as a mighty warrior.

[5:16]  ⁶ tn Heb “The holy God will be set apart by fairness.” In this context God’s holiness is his sovereign royal authority, which implies a commitment to justice (see the note on the phrase “the sovereign king of Israel” in 1:4). When God judges evildoers as they deserve, his sovereignty will be acknowledged.

[5:16]  sn The appearance of מִשְׁפָט (mishpat, “justice”) and צְדָקָה (tsÿdaqah, “fairness”) here is rhetorically significant, when one recalls v. 7. There God denounces his people for failing to produce a society where “justice” and “fairness” are valued and maintained. God will judge his people for their failure, taking “justice” and “fairness” into his own hands.

[13:13]  ⁷ tn Or “the sky.” The Hebrew term שָׁמַיִם (shamayim) may be translated “heavens” or “sky” depending on the context.

[13:13]  ⁸ tn Heb “from its place” (so NAB, NASB, NIV, NCV).

[13:13]  ⁹ tn Heb “and in the day of the raging of his anger.”

[30:27]  ¹⁰ sn The “name” of the Lord sometimes stands by metonymy for the Lord himself, see Exod 23:21; Lev 24:11; Pss 54:1 (54:3 HT); 124:8. In Isa 30:27 the point is that he reveals that aspect of his character which his name suggests – he comes as Yahweh (“he is present”), the ever present helper of his people who annihilates their enemies and delivers them. The name “Yahweh” originated in a context where God assured a fearful Moses that he would be with him as he confronted Pharaoh and delivered Israel from slavery in Egypt. See Exod 3.

[30:27]  ¹¹ tn Heb “his anger burns, and heaviness of elevation.” The meaning of the phrase “heaviness of elevation” is unclear, for מַשָּׂאָה (masa’ah, “elevation”) occurs only here. Some understand the term as referring to a cloud (elevated above the earth’s surface), in which case one might translate, “and in heavy clouds” (cf. NAB “with lowering clouds”). Others relate the noun to מָשָׂא (masa’, “burden”) and interpret it as a reference to judgment. In this case one might translate, “and with severe judgment.” The present translation assumes that the noun refers to his glory and that “heaviness” emphasizes its degree.

[30:27]  ¹² tn Heb “his lips are full of anger, and his tongue is like consuming fire.” The Lord’s lips and tongue are used metonymically for his word (or perhaps his battle cry; see v. 31).

[36:10]  ¹³ sn In v. 10 the chief adviser develops further the argument begun in v. 7. He claims that Hezekiah has offended the Lord and that the Lord has commissioned Assyria as his instrument of discipline and judgment.

[37:8]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “and the chief adviser returned and he found the king of Assyria fighting against Libnah, for he heard that he had departed from Lachish.”

[39:4]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Isaiah) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[41:22]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “As for the former things, tell us what they are!”

[41:22]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “so we might set [them to] our heart.”

[41:22]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “and might know their outcome.”

[42:13]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “like a man of war he stirs up zeal” (NIV similar).

[42:13]  ²⁰ tn Or perhaps, “he triumphs over his enemies” (cf. NIV); NLT “will crush all his enemies.”

[45:4]  ²¹ tn Or “know” (NCV, NRSV, TEV, NLT); NIV “acknowledge.”

[48:14]  ²² sn This probably refers to the idol gods (see v. 5).

[48:14]  ²³ tn Or “friend,” or “covenant partner.”

[48:14]  sn The Lord’s ally is a reference to Cyrus.

[48:14]  ²⁴ tn Heb “and his arm [against] the Babylonians.”