Yesaya 5:5

5:5 Now I will inform you

what I am about to do to my vineyard:

I will remove its hedge and turn it into pasture, ¹ 

I will break its wall and allow animals to graze there. ² 

Yesaya 5:8

Disaster is Coming

5:8 Those who accumulate houses are as good as dead, ³ 

those who also accumulate landed property ⁴ 

until there is no land left, ⁵ 

and you are the only landowners remaining within the land. ⁶ 

Yesaya 10:6

10:6 I sent him ⁷  against a godless ⁸  nation,

I ordered him to attack the people with whom I was angry, ⁹ 

to take plunder and to carry away loot,

to trample them down ¹⁰  like dirt in the streets.

Yesaya 14:21

14:21 Prepare to execute ¹¹  his sons

for the sins their ancestors have committed. ¹² 

They must not rise up and take possession of the earth,

or fill the surface of the world with cities.” ¹³ 

Yesaya 20:6

20:6 At that time ¹⁴  those who live on this coast ¹⁵  will say, ‘Look what has happened to our source of hope to whom we fled for help, expecting to be rescued from the king of Assyria! How can we escape now?’”

Yesaya 23:9

23:9 The Lord who commands armies planned it –

to dishonor the pride that comes from all her beauty, ¹⁶ 

to humiliate all the dignitaries of the earth.

Yesaya 27:3

27:3 I, the Lord, protect it; ¹⁷ 

I water it regularly. ¹⁸ 

I guard it night and day,

so no one can harm it. ¹⁹ 

Yesaya 45:8

45:8 O sky, rain down from above!

Let the clouds send down showers ²⁰  of deliverance!

Let the earth absorb it ²¹  so salvation may grow, ²² 

and deliverance may sprout up ²³  along with it.

I, the Lord, create it. ²⁴ 

Yesaya 57:1

57:1 The godly ²⁵  perish,

but no one cares. ²⁶ 

Honest people disappear, ²⁷ 

when no one ²⁸  minds ²⁹ 

that the godly ³⁰  disappear ³¹  because of ³²  evil. ³³ 

Yesaya 58:4

58:4 Look, your fasting is accompanied by ³⁴  arguments, brawls,

and fistfights. ³⁵ 

Do not fast as you do today,

trying to make your voice heard in heaven.

Yesaya 58:6

58:6 No, this is the kind of fast I want. ³⁶ 

I want you ³⁷  to remove the sinful chains,

to tear away the ropes of the burdensome yoke,

to set free the oppressed, ³⁸ 

and to break every burdensome yoke.

Yesaya 60:21

60:21 All of your people will be godly; ³⁹ 

they will possess the land permanently.

I will plant them like a shoot;

they will be the product of my labor,

through whom I reveal my splendor. ⁴⁰ 

Yesaya 63:12

63:12 the one who made his majestic power available to Moses, ⁴¹ 

who divided the water before them,

gaining for himself a lasting reputation, ⁴² 

[5:5]  ¹ tn Heb “and it will become [a place for] grazing.” בָּעַר (ba’ar, “grazing”) is a homonym of the more often used verb “to burn.”

[5:5]  ² tn Heb “and it will become a trampled place” (NASB “trampled ground”).

[5:8]  ³ tn Heb “Woe [to] those who make a house touch a house.” The exclamation הוֹי (hoy, “woe, ah”) was used in funeral laments (see 1 Kgs 13:30; Jer 22:18; 34:5) and carries the connotation of death.

[5:8]  ⁴ tn Heb “[who] bring a field near a field.”

[5:8]  sn This verse does not condemn real estate endeavors per se, but refers to the way in which the rich bureaucrats of Judah accumulated property by exploiting the poor, in violation of the covenantal principle that the land belonged to God and that every family was to have its own portion of land. See the note at 1:23.

[5:8]  ⁵ tn Heb “until the end of the place”; NASB “until there is no more room.”

[5:8]  ⁶ tn Heb “and you are made to dwell alone in the midst of the land.”

[10:6]  ⁷ sn Throughout this section singular forms are used to refer to Assyria; perhaps the king of Assyria is in view (see v. 12).

[10:6]  ⁸ tn Or “defiled”; cf. ASV “profane”; NAB “impious”; NCV “separated from God.”

[10:6]  ⁹ tn Heb “and against the people of my anger I ordered him.”

[10:6]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “to make it [i.e., the people] a trampled place.”

[14:21]  ¹¹ tn Or “the place of slaughter for.”

[14:21]  ¹² tn Heb “for the sin of their fathers.”

[14:21]  ¹³ sn J. N. Oswalt (Isaiah [NICOT], 1:320, n. 10) suggests that the garrison cities of the mighty empire are in view here.

[20:6]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “in that day” (so KJV).

[20:6]  ¹⁵ sn This probably refers to the coastal region of Philistia (cf. TEV).

[23:9]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “the pride of all the beauty.”

[27:3]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “her.” Apparently “vineyard” is the antecedent, though normally this noun is understood as masculine (see Lev 25:3, however).

[27:3]  ¹⁸ tn Or perhaps, “constantly.” Heb “by moments.”

[27:3]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “lest [someone] visit [harm] upon it, night and day I guard it.”

[45:8]  ²⁰ tn Heb “let the clouds drip with”; KJV “let the skies pour down.”

[45:8]  ²¹ tn Heb “open up” (so NASB); NIV, NLT “open wide.”

[45:8]  ²² tc The plural verb should be emended to a singular form. The vav (ו) ending is probably virtually dittographic (note the yod at the beginning of the following word).

[45:8]  ²³ tc The Hiphil verb form (תַצְמִיחַ, tatsmiakh) should probably be emended to a Qal (תִצְמַח, titsmakh). The יח sequence at the end of the form is probably due to dittography (note the following יַחַד, yakhad).

[45:8]  ²⁴ tn The masculine singular pronominal suffix probably refers back to יָשַׁע (yasha’, “salvation”).

[57:1]  ²⁵ tn Or “righteous” (KJV, NASB, NIV, NRSV, NLT); NAB “the just man”; TEV “Good people.”

[57:1]  ²⁶ tn Or perhaps, “understands.” Heb “and there is no man who sets [it] upon [his] heart.”

[57:1]  ²⁷ tn Heb “Men of loyalty are taken away.” The Niphal of אָסַף (’asaf) here means “to die.”

[57:1]  ²⁸ tn The Hebrew term בְּאֵין (bÿ’en) often has the nuance “when there is no.” See Prov 8:24; 11;14; 14:4; 15:22; 26:20; 29:18.

[57:1]  ²⁹ tn Or “realizes”; Heb “understands” (so NASB, NIV, NRSV).

[57:1]  ³⁰ tn Or “righteous” (KJV, NASB, NIV, NRSV, NLT); NAB “the just man.”

[57:1]  ³¹ tn Heb “are taken away.” The Niphal of אָסַף (’asaf) here means “to die.”

[57:1]  ³² tn The term מִפְּנֵי (mippÿne, “from the face of”) often has a causal nuance. It also appears with the Niphal of אָסַף (’asaph, “gather”) in 2 Chr 12:5: אֲשֶׁר־נֶאֶסְפוּ אֶל־יְרוּשָׁלַם מִפְּנֵי שִׁישָׁק (’asher-ne’esphu ’el-yÿrushalam mippÿney shishaq, “who had gathered at Jerusalem because of [i.e., due to fear of] Shishak”).

[57:1]  ³³ tn The translation assumes that this verse, in proverbial fashion, laments society’s apathy over the persecution of the godly. The second half of the verse observes that such apathy results in more widespread oppression. Since the next verse pictures the godly being taken to a place of rest, some interpret the second half of v. 1 in a more positive vein. According to proponents of this view, God removes the godly so that they might be spared suffering and calamity, a fact which the general populace fails to realize.

[58:4]  ³⁴ tn Heb “you fast for” (so NASB); NRSV “you fast only to quarrel.”

[58:4]  ³⁵ tn Heb “and for striking with a sinful fist.”

[58:6]  ³⁶ tn Heb “Is this not a fast I choose?” “No” is supplied in the translation for clarification.

[58:6]  ³⁷ tn The words “I want you” are supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[58:6]  ³⁸ tn Heb “crushed.”

[60:21]  ³⁹ tn Or “righteous” (NASB, NIV, NRSV, NLT); NAB “just.”

[60:21]  ⁴⁰ tn Heb “a shoot of his planting, the work of my hands, to reveal splendor.”

[63:12]  ⁴¹ tn Heb “who caused to go at the right hand of Moses the arm of his splendor.”

[63:12]  ⁴² tn Heb “making for himself a lasting name.”