Isaiah 4:1

4:1 Seven women will grab hold of

one man at that time. ¹ 

They will say, “We will provide ²  our own food,

we will provide ³  our own clothes;

but let us belong to you ⁴  –

take away our shame!” ⁵ 

Isaiah 19:21

19:21 The Lord will reveal himself to the Egyptians, and they ⁶  will acknowledge the Lord’s authority ⁷  at that time. ⁸  They will present sacrifices and offerings; they will make vows to the Lord and fulfill them.

Isaiah 19:23

19:23 At that time there will be a highway from Egypt to Assyria. The Assyrians will visit Egypt, and the Egyptians will visit Assyria. The Egyptians and Assyrians will worship together. ⁹ 

Isaiah 22:25

22:25 “At that time,” ¹⁰  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.” ¹¹  Indeed, ¹²  the Lord has spoken.

Isaiah 25:9

25:9 At that time they will say, ¹³ 

“Look, here ¹⁴  is our God!

We waited for him and he delivered us.

Here ¹⁵  is the Lord! We waited for him.

Let’s rejoice and celebrate his deliverance!”

Isaiah 27:1

27:1 At that time ¹⁶  the Lord will punish

with his destructive, ¹⁷  great, and powerful sword

Leviathan the fast-moving ¹⁸  serpent,

Leviathan the squirming serpent;

he will kill the sea monster. ¹⁹ 

Isaiah 30:23

30:23 He will water the seed you plant in the ground,

and the ground will produce crops in abundance. ²⁰ 

At that time ²¹  your cattle will graze in wide pastures.

[4:1]  ¹ tn Or “in that day” (ASV).

[4:1]  ² tn Heb “eat” (so NASB, NIV, NRSV); CEV “buy.”

[4:1]  ³ tn Heb “wear” (so NASB, NRSV); NCV “make.”

[4:1]  ⁴ tn Heb “only let your name be called over us.” The Hebrew idiom “call the name over” indicates ownership. See 2 Sam 12:28, and BDB 896 s.v. I ָקרָא Niph. 2.d.(4). The language reflects the cultural reality of ancient Israel, where women were legally the property of their husbands.

[4:1]  ⁵ sn This refers to the humiliation of being unmarried and childless. The women’s words reflect the cultural standards of ancient Israel, where a woman’s primary duties were to be a wife and mother.

[19:21]  ⁶ tn Heb “Egypt.” For stylistic reasons, to avoid redundancy, the present translation uses the pronoun (“they”) here.

[19:21]  ⁷ tn Heb “will know the Lord.”

[19:21]  ⁸ tn Heb “in that day” (so KJV), likewise at the beginning of vv. 23 and 24.

[19:23]  ¹¹ tn The text could be translated, “and Egypt will serve Assyria” (cf. NAB), but subjugation of one nation to the other does not seem to be a theme in vv. 23-25. Rather the nations are viewed as equals before the Lord (v. 25). Therefore it is better to take אֶת (’et) in v. 23b as a preposition, “together with,” rather than the accusative sign. The names of the two countries are understood to refer by metonymy to their respective inhabitants.

[22:25]  ¹⁶ tn Or “In that day” (KJV).

[22:25]  ¹⁷ sn Eliakim’s authority, though seemingly secure, will eventually be removed, and with it his family’s prominence.

[22:25]  ¹⁸ tn Or “for” (KJV, NAB, NASB, NRSV).

[25:9]  ²¹ tn Heb “and one will say in that day.”

[25:9]  ²² tn Heb “this [one].”

[25:9]  ²³ tn Heb “this [one].”

[27:1]  ²⁶ tn Heb “in that day” (so KJV).

[27:1]  ²⁷ tn Heb “hard, severe”; cf. NAB, NRSV “cruel”; KJV “sore”; NLT “terrible.”

[27:1]  ²⁸ tn Heb “fleeing” (so NAB, NASB, NRSV). Some translate “slippery” or “slithering.”

[27:1]  ²⁹ tn The description of Leviathan should be compared with the following excerpts from Ugaritic mythological texts: (1) “Was not the dragon (Ugaritic tnn, cognate with Hebrew תַנִּין [tannin, translated “sea monster” here]) vanquished and captured? I did destroy the wriggling (Ugaritic ’qltn, cognate to Hebrew עֲקַלָּתוֹן [’aqallaton, translated “squirming” here]) serpent, the tyrant with seven heads (cf. Ps 74:14).” (See CTA 3 iii 38-39.) (2) “for all that you smote Leviathan the slippery (Ugaritic brh, cognate to Hebrew בָּרִחַ [bariakh, translated “fast-moving” here]) serpent, [and] made an end of the wriggling serpent, the tyrant with seven heads” (See CTA 5 i 1-3.)

[30:23]  ³¹ tn Heb “and he will give rain for your seed which you plant in the ground, and food [will be] the produce of the ground, and it will be rich and abundant.”

[30:23]  ³² tn Or “in that day” (KJV).