Isaiah 1:28

1:28 All rebellious sinners will be shattered, ¹ 

those who abandon the Lord will perish.

Isaiah 15:3

15:3 In their streets they wear sackcloth;

on their roofs and in their town squares

all of them wail,

they fall down weeping.

Isaiah 28:24

28:24 Does a farmer just keep on plowing at planting time? ² 

Does he keep breaking up and harrowing his ground?

Isaiah 28:29

28:29 This also comes from the Lord who commands armies,

who gives supernatural guidance and imparts great wisdom. ³ 

Isaiah 41:24

41:24 Look, you are nothing, and your accomplishments are nonexistent;

the one who chooses to worship you is disgusting. ⁴ 

Isaiah 63:8

63:8 He said, “Certainly they will be my people,

children who are not disloyal.” ⁵ 

He became their deliverer.

Isaiah 66:6

66:6 The sound of battle comes from the city;

the sound comes from the temple!

It is the sound of the Lord paying back his enemies.

[1:28]  ¹ tn Heb “and [there will be] a shattering of rebels and sinners together.”

[28:24]  ² tn Heb “All the day does the plowman plow in order to plant?” The phrase “all the day” here has the sense of “continually, always.” See BDB 400 s.v. יוֹם.

[28:29]  ³ sn Verses 23-29 emphasize that God possesses great wisdom and has established a natural order. Evidence of this can be seen in the way farmers utilize divinely imparted wisdom to grow and harvest crops. God’s dealings with his people will exhibit this same kind of wisdom and order. Judgment will be accomplished according to a divinely ordered timetable and, while severe enough, will not be excessive. Judgment must come, just as planting inevitably follows plowing. God will, as it were, thresh his people, but he will not crush them to the point where they will be of no use to him.

[41:24]  ⁴ tn Heb “an object of disgust [is he who] chooses you.”

[63:8]  ⁵ tn Heb “children [who] do not act deceitfully.” Here the verb refers to covenantal loyalty.