Yesaya 5:25

5:25 So the Lord is furious ¹  with his people;

he lifts ²  his hand and strikes them.

The mountains shake,

and corpses lie like manure ³  in the middle of the streets.

Despite all this, his anger does not subside,

and his hand is ready to strike again. 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 30:18

The Lord Will Not Abandon His People

30:18 For this reason the Lord is ready to show you mercy;

he sits on his throne, ready to have compassion on you. ⁸ 

Indeed, the Lord is a just God;

all who wait for him in faith will be blessed. ⁹ 

Yesaya 42:25

42:25 So he poured out his fierce anger on them,

along with the devastation ¹⁰  of war.

Its flames encircled them, but they did not realize it; ¹¹ 

it burned against them, but they did notice. ¹² 

Yesaya 63:7

A Prayer for Divine Intervention

63:7 I will tell of the faithful acts of the Lord,

of the Lord’s praiseworthy deeds.

I will tell about all ¹³  the Lord did for us,

the many good things he did for the family of Israel, ¹⁴ 

because of ¹⁵  his compassion and great faithfulness.

[5:25]  ¹ tn Heb “the anger of the Lord rages.”

[5:25]  ² tn Or “extends”; KJV, ASV “he hath stretched forth.”

[5:25]  ³ tn Or “garbage” (NCV, CEV, NLT); NAB, NASB, NIV “refuse.”

[5:25]  ⁴ tn Heb “in all this his anger is not turned, and still his hand is outstretched.”

[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.

[30:18]  ⁸ tn Heb “Therefore the Lord waits to show you mercy, and therefore he is exalted to have compassion on you.” The logical connection between this verse and what precedes is problematic. The point seems to be that Judah’s impending doom does not bring God joy. Rather the prospect of their suffering stirs within him a willingness to show mercy and compassion, if they are willing to seek him on his terms.

[30:18]  ⁹ tn Heb “Blessed are all who wait for him.”

[42:25]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “strength” (so KJV, NASB); NAB “fury”; NASB “fierceness”; NIV “violence.”

[42:25]  ¹¹ tn Heb “and it blazed against him all around, but he did not know.” The subject of the third feminine singular verb “blazed” is the divine חֵמָה (khemah, “anger”) mentioned in the previous line.

[42:25]  ¹² tn Heb “and it burned against him, but he did not set [it] upon [the] heart.”

[63:7]  ¹³ tn Heb “according to all which.”

[63:7]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “greatness of goodness to the house of Israel which he did for them.”

[63:7]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “according to.”