Yesaya 6:5
Konteks6:5 I said, “Too bad for me! I am destroyed, 1 for my lips are contaminated by sin, 2 and I live among people whose lips are contaminated by sin. 3 My eyes have seen the king, the Lord who commands armies.” 4
Yesaya 7:1
Konteks7:1 During 5 the reign of Ahaz son of Jotham, son of Uzziah, king of Judah, King Rezin of Syria and King Pekah son of Remaliah of Israel marched up to Jerusalem 6 to do battle, but they were unable to prevail against it. 7
Yesaya 17:13
Konteks17:13 Though these people make an uproar as loud as the roaring of powerful waves, 8
when he shouts at 9 them, they will flee to a distant land,
driven before the wind like dead weeds on the hills,
or like dead thistles 10 before a strong gale.
Yesaya 33:20
Konteks33:20 Look at Zion, the city where we hold religious festivals!
a peaceful settlement,
a tent that stays put; 13
its stakes will never be pulled up;
none of its ropes will snap in two.
Yesaya 65:20
Konteks65:20 Never again will one of her infants live just a few days 14
or an old man die before his time. 15
Indeed, no one will die before the age of a hundred, 16
anyone who fails to reach 17 the age of a hundred will be considered cursed.
[6:5] 1 tn Isaiah uses the suffixed (perfect) form of the verb for rhetorical purposes. In this way his destruction is described as occurring or as already completed. Rather than understanding the verb as derived from דָּמַה (damah, “be destroyed”), some take it from a proposed homonymic root דמה, which would mean “be silent.” In this case, one might translate, “I must be silent.”
[6:5] 2 tn Heb “a man unclean of lips am I.” Isaiah is not qualified to praise the king. His lips (the instruments of praise) are “unclean” because he has been contaminated by sin.
[6:5] 3 tn Heb “and among a nation unclean of lips I live.”
[6:5] 4 tn Perhaps in this context, the title has a less militaristic connotation and pictures the Lord as the ruler of the heavenly assembly. See the note at 1:9.
[7:1] 5 tn The verb that introduces this verse serves as a discourse particle and is untranslated; see note on “in the future” in 2:2.
[7:1] 6 map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.
[7:1] 7 tn Or perhaps, “but they were unable to attack it.” This statement sounds like a summary of the whole campaign. The following context explains why they were unable to defeat the southern kingdom. The parallel passage (2 Kgs 16:5; cf. Num 22:11; 1 Sam 17:9 for a similar construction) affirms that Syria and Israel besieged Ahaz. Consequently, the statement that “they were not able to battle against them” must refer to the inability to conquer Ahaz.
[17:13] 8 tn Heb “the peoples are in an uproar like the uproar of mighty waters.”
[17:13] 9 tn Or “rebukes.” The verb and related noun are used in theophanies of God’s battle cry which terrifies his enemies. See, for example, Pss 18:15; 76:7; 106:9; Isa 50:2; Nah 1:4, and A. Caquot, TDOT 3:49-53.
[17:13] 10 tn Or perhaps “tumbleweed” (NAB, NIV, CEV); KJV “like a rolling thing.”
[33:20] 11 tn Heb “your eyes” (so NASB, NIV, NRSV).
[33:20] 12 map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.
[33:20] 13 tn Or “that does not travel”; NASB “which shall not be folded.”
[65:20] 14 tn Heb “and there will not be from there again a nursing infant of days,” i.e., one that lives just a few days.
[65:20] 15 tn Heb “or an old [man] who does not fill out his days.”
[65:20] 16 tn Heb “for the child as a son of one hundred years will die.” The point seems to be that those who die at the age of a hundred will be considered children, for the average life span will be much longer than that. The category “child” will be redefined in light of the expanded life spans that will characterize this new era.
[65:20] 17 tn Heb “the one who misses.” חָטָא (khata’) is used here in its basic sense of “miss the mark.” See HALOT 305 s.v. חטא. Another option is to translate, “and the sinner who reaches the age of a hundred will be cursed.”
