Yesaya 6:6-7

6:6 But then one of the seraphs flew toward me. In his hand was a hot coal he had taken from the altar with tongs. 6:7 He touched my mouth with it and said, “Look, this coal has touched your lips. Your evil is removed; your sin is forgiven.” ¹ 

Yesaya 7:6

7:6 They say, “Let’s attack Judah, terrorize it, and conquer it. ²  Then we’ll set up the son of Tabeel as its king.” ³ 

Yesaya 38:21

38:21 ⁴  Isaiah ordered, “Let them take a fig cake and apply it to the ulcerated sore and he will get well.”

Yesaya 42:23

42:23 Who among you will pay attention to this?

Who will listen attentively in the future? ⁵ 

[6:7]  ¹ tn Or “ritually cleansed,” or “atoned for” (NIV).

[7:6]  ² tn Heb “and let us break it open for ourselves”; NASB “make for ourselves a breach in its walls”; NLT “fight our way into.”

[7:6]  ³ tn Heb “and we will make the son of Tabeel king in its midst.”

[7:6]  sn The precise identity of this would-be puppet king is unknown. He may have been a Syrian official or the ruler of one of the small neighboring states. See Y. Aharoni, Land of the Bible, 370.

[38:21]  ⁴ tc If original to Isaiah 38, vv. 21-22 have obviously been misplaced in the course of the text’s transmission, and would most naturally be placed here, between Isa 38:6 and 38:7. See 2 Kgs 20:7-8, where these verses are placed at this point in the narrative, not at the end. Another possibility is that these verses were not in the original account, and a scribe, familiar with the 2 Kgs version of the story, appended vv. 21-22 to the end of the account in Isaiah 38.

[42:23]  ⁵ tn The interrogative particle is understood in the second line by ellipsis (note the preceding line).