Isaiah 38:3-6

38:3 “Please, Lord. Remember how I have served you ¹  faithfully and with wholehearted devotion, ²  and how I have carried out your will.” ³  Then Hezekiah wept bitterly. ⁴ 

38:4 The Lord told Isaiah, ⁵  38:5 “Go and tell Hezekiah: ‘This is what the Lord God of your ancestor ⁶  David says: “I have heard your prayer; I have seen your tears. Look, I will add fifteen years to your life, 38:6 and rescue you and this city from the king of Assyria. I will shield this city.”’”

Isaiah 58:9

58:9 Then you will call out, and the Lord will respond;

you will cry out, and he will reply, ‘Here I am.’

You must ⁷  remove the burdensome yoke from among you

and stop pointing fingers and speaking sinfully.

Isaiah 65:24

65:24 Before they even call out, ⁸  I will respond;

while they are still speaking, I will hear.

Isaiah 65:2

65:2 I spread out my hands all day long

to my rebellious people,

who lived in a way that is morally unacceptable,

and who did what they desired. ⁹ 

Isaiah 15:1

The Lord Will Judge Moab

15:1 Here is a message about Moab:

Indeed, in a night it is devastated,

Ar of Moab is destroyed!

Indeed, in a night it is devastated,

Kir of Moab is destroyed!

Isaiah 17:1-2

The Lord Will Judge Damascus

17:1 Here is a message about Damascus:

“Look, Damascus is no longer a city,

it is a heap of ruins!

17:2 The cities of Aroer are abandoned. ¹⁰ 

They will be used for herds,

which will lie down there in peace. ¹¹ 

Isaiah 19:20-21

19:20 It ¹²  will become a visual reminder in the land of Egypt of ¹³  the Lord who commands armies. When they cry out to the Lord because of oppressors, he will send them a deliverer and defender ¹⁴  who will rescue them. 19:21 The Lord will reveal himself to the Egyptians, and they ¹⁵  will acknowledge the Lord’s authority ¹⁶  at that time. ¹⁷  They will present sacrifices and offerings; they will make vows to the Lord and fulfill them.

Job 22:27

22:27 You will pray to him and he will hear you,

and you will fulfill your vows to him. ¹⁸ 

Psalms 91:15

91:15 When he calls out to me, I will answer him.

I will be with him when he is in trouble;

I will rescue him and bring him honor.

Daniel 9:20-23

Gabriel Gives to Daniel a Prophecy of Seventy Weeks

9:20 While I was still speaking and praying, confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel and presenting my request before the LORD my God concerning his holy mountain ¹⁹  – 9:21 yes, while I was still praying, ²⁰  the man Gabriel, whom I had seen previously ²¹  in a vision, was approaching me in my state of extreme weariness, ²²  around the time of the evening offering. 9:22 He spoke with me, instructing me as follows: ²³  “Daniel, I have now come to impart understanding to you. 9:23 At the beginning of your requests a message went out, and I have come to convey it to you, for you are of great value in God’s sight. ²⁴  Therefore consider the message and understand the vision: ²⁵ 

Acts 4:31

4:31 When ²⁶  they had prayed, the place where they were assembled together was shaken, ²⁷  and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak ²⁸  the word of God ²⁹  courageously. ³⁰ 

[38:3]  ¹ tn Heb “walked before you.” For a helpful discussion of the background and meaning of this Hebrew idiom, see M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 254.

[38:3]  ² tn Heb “and with a complete heart”; KJV, ASV “with a perfect heart.”

[38:3]  ³ tn Heb “and that which is good in your eyes I have done.”

[38:3]  ⁴ tn Heb “wept with great weeping”; NCV “cried loudly”; TEV “began to cry bitterly.”

[38:4]  ⁵ tn Heb “and the word of the Lord came to Isaiah, saying.”

[38:5]  ⁶ tn Heb “father” (so KJV, NAB, NIV).

[58:9]  ⁷ tn Heb “if you.” In the Hebrew text vv. 9b-10 are one long conditional sentence. The protasis (“if” clauses appear in vv. 9b-10a), with the apodosis (“then” clause) appearing in v. 10b.

[65:24]  ⁸ tn The verb that introduces this verse serves as a discourse particle and is untranslated; see note on “in the future” in 2:2.

[65:2]  ⁹ tn Heb “who walked [in] the way that is not good, after their thoughts.”

[17:2]  ¹⁰ tn Three cities are known by this name in the OT: (1) an Aroer located near the Arnon, (2) an Aroer in Ammon, and (3) an Aroer of Judah. (See BDB 792-93 s.v. עֲרֹעֵר, and HALOT 883 s.v. II עֲרוֹעֵר.) There is no mention of an Aroer in Syrian territory. For this reason some want to emend the text here to עֲזֻבוֹת עָרַיהָ עֲדֵי עַד (’azuvot ’arayha ’adey ’ad, “her cities are permanently abandoned”). However, Aroer near the Arnon was taken by Israel and later conquered by the Syrians. (See Josh 12:2; 13:9, 16; Judg 11:26; 2 Kgs 10:33). This oracle pertains to Israel as well as Syria (note v. 3), so it is possible that this is a reference to Israelite and/or Syrian losses in Transjordan.

[17:2]  ¹¹ tn Heb “and they lie down and there is no one scaring [them].”

[19:20]  ¹² tn The masculine noun מִזְבֵּחַ (mizbbeakh, “altar”) in v. 19 is probably the subject of the masculine singular verb הָיָה (hayah) rather than the feminine noun מַצֵּבָה (matsevah, “sacred pillar”), also in v. 19.

[19:20]  ¹³ tn Heb “a sign and a witness to the Lord who commands armies [traditionally, the Lord of hosts] in the land of Egypt.”

[19:20]  ¹⁴ tn רָב (rav) is a substantival participle (from רִיב, riv) meaning “one who strives, contends.”

[19:21]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “Egypt.” For stylistic reasons, to avoid redundancy, the present translation uses the pronoun (“they”) here.

[19:21]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “will know the Lord.”

[19:21]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “in that day” (so KJV), likewise at the beginning of vv. 23 and 24.

[22:27]  ¹⁸ tn The words “to him” are not in the Hebrew text, but are implied.

[9:20]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “the holy mountain of my God.”

[9:21]  ²⁰ tn Heb “speaking in prayer.”

[9:21]  ²¹ tn Heb “in the beginning.”

[9:21]  ²² tn The Hebrew expression בִּיעָף מֻעָף (mu’af bi’af) is very difficult. The issue is whether the verb derives from עוּף (’uf, “to fly”) or from יָעַף (ya’af, “to be weary”). Many ancient versions and modern commentators take the first of these possibilities and understand the reference to be to the swift flight of the angel Gabriel in his coming to Daniel. The words more likely refer to the extreme weariness, not of the angel, but of Daniel. Cf. 7:28; 8:27; 10:8-9, 16-17; also NASB.

[9:22]  ²³ tn Heb “he instructed and spoke with me.” The expression is a verbal hendiadys.

[9:23]  ²⁴ tn Or “a precious treasure”; KJV “greatly beloved”; NASB, NIV “highly esteemed.”

[9:23]  ²⁵ tn This sentence is perhaps a compound hendiadys (“give serious consideration to the revelatory vision”).

[4:31]  ²⁶ tn Grk “And when.” Because of the difference between Greek style, which often begins sentences or clauses with “and,” and English style, which generally does not, καί (kai) has not been translated here.

[4:31]  ²⁷ sn The place where they were assembled…was shaken. This signifies that God is in their midst. See Acts 16:26; Exod 19:18; Ps 114:7; Isa 6:4.

[4:31]  ²⁸ tn The imperfect verb has been translated as an ingressive imperfect (“began to speak”). Logical sequencing suggests that their speaking began after they were filled with the Spirit. The prayer was answered immediately.

[4:31]  ²⁹ tn Or “speak God’s message.”

[4:31]  ³⁰ tn Or “with boldness.”