Isaiah 1:13

1:13 Do not bring any more meaningless ¹  offerings;

I consider your incense detestable! ² 

You observe new moon festivals, Sabbaths, and convocations,

but I cannot tolerate sin-stained celebrations! ³ 

Isaiah 30:8

30:8 Now go, write it ⁴  down on a tablet in their presence, ⁵ 

inscribe it on a scroll,

so that it might be preserved for a future time

as an enduring witness. ⁶ 

Isaiah 32:20

32:20 you will be blessed,

you who plant seed by all the banks of the streams, ⁷ 

you who let your ox and donkey graze. ⁸ 

Isaiah 43:13

43:13 From this day forward I am he;

no one can deliver from my power; ⁹ 

I will act, and who can prevent it?”

Isaiah 46:3

46:3 “Listen to me, O family of Jacob, ¹⁰ 

all you who are left from the family of Israel, ¹¹ 

you who have been carried from birth, ¹² 

you who have been supported from the time you left the womb. ¹³ 

Isaiah 47:15

47:15 They will disappoint you, ¹⁴ 

those you have so faithfully dealt with since your youth. ¹⁵ 

Each strays off in his own direction, ¹⁶ 

leaving no one to rescue you.”

Isaiah 54:6

54:6 “Indeed, the Lord will call you back

like a wife who has been abandoned and suffers from depression, ¹⁷ 

like a young wife when she has been rejected,” says your God.

Isaiah 58:4

58:4 Look, your fasting is accompanied by ¹⁸  arguments, brawls,

and fistfights. ¹⁹ 

Do not fast as you do today,

trying to make your voice heard in heaven.

Isaiah 64:4

64:4 Since ancient times no one has heard or perceived, ²⁰ 

no eye has seen any God besides you,

who intervenes for those who wait for him.

[1:13]  ¹ tn Or “worthless” (NASB, NCV, CEV); KJV, ASV “vain.”

[1:13]  ² sn Notice some of the other practices that Yahweh regards as “detestable”: homosexuality (Lev 18:22-30; 20:13), idolatry (Deut 7:25; 13:15), human sacrifice (Deut 12:31), eating ritually unclean animals (Deut 14:3-8), sacrificing defective animals (Deut 17:1), engaging in occult activities (Deut 18:9-14), and practicing ritual prostitution (1 Kgs 14:23).

[1:13]  ³ tn Heb “sin and assembly” (these two nouns probably represent a hendiadys). The point is that their attempts at worship are unacceptable to God because the people’s everyday actions in the socio-economic realm prove they have no genuine devotion to God (see vv. 16-17).

[30:8]  ⁴ tn The referent of the third feminine singular pronominal suffix is uncertain. Perhaps it refers to the preceding message, which accuses the people of rejecting the Lord’s help in favor of an alliance with Egypt.

[30:8]  ⁵ tn Heb “with them.” On the use of the preposition here, see BDB 86 s.v. II אֵת.

[30:8]  ⁶ sn Recording the message will enable the prophet to use it in the future as evidence that God warned his people of impending judgment and clearly spelled out the nation’s guilt. An official record of the message will also serve as proof of the prophet’s authority as God’s spokesman.

[32:20]  ⁷ tn Heb “by all the waters.”

[32:20]  ⁸ tn Heb “who set free the foot of the ox and donkey”; NIV “letting your cattle and donkeys range free.”

[43:13]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “hand” (so KJV, NASB, NIV, NRSV); NLT “No one can oppose what I do.”

[46:3]  ¹³ tn Heb “house of Jacob”; TEV “descendants of Jacob.”

[46:3]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “and all the remnant of the house of Israel.”

[46:3]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “from the womb” (so NRSV); KJV “from the belly”; NAB “from your infancy.”

[46:3]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “who have been lifted up from the womb.”

[47:15]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “So they will be to you”; NIV “That is all they can do for you.”

[47:15]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “that for which you toiled, your traders from your youth.” The omen readers and star gazers are likened to merchants with whom Babylon has had an ongoing economic relationship.

[47:15]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “each to his own side, they err.”

[54:6]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “like a woman abandoned and grieved in spirit.”

[58:4]  ²² tn Heb “you fast for” (so NASB); NRSV “you fast only to quarrel.”

[58:4]  ²³ tn Heb “and for striking with a sinful fist.”

[64:4]  ²⁵ tn Heb “from ancient times they have not heard, they have not listened.”