Isaiah 1:4

1:4 ¹ The sinful nation is as good as dead, ² 

the people weighed down by evil deeds.

They are offspring who do wrong,

children ³  who do wicked things.

They have abandoned the Lord,

and rejected the Holy One of Israel. ⁴ 

They are alienated from him. ⁵ 

Isaiah 2:15

2:15 for every high tower,

for every fortified wall,

Isaiah 18:5

18:5 For before the harvest, when the bud has sprouted,

and the ripening fruit appears, ⁶ 

he will cut off the unproductive shoots ⁷  with pruning knives;

he will prune the tendrils. ⁸ 

Isaiah 21:3

21:3 For this reason my stomach churns; ⁹ 

cramps overwhelm me

like the contractions of a woman in labor.

I am disturbed ¹⁰  by what I hear,

horrified by what I see.

Isaiah 30:30

30:30 The Lord will give a mighty shout ¹¹ 

and intervene in power, ¹² 

with furious anger and flaming, destructive fire, ¹³ 

with a driving rainstorm and hailstones.

Isaiah 31:3

31:3 The Egyptians are mere humans, not God;

their horses are made of flesh, not spirit.

The Lord will strike with ¹⁴  his hand;

the one who helps will stumble

and the one being helped will fall.

Together they will perish. ¹⁵ 

Isaiah 37:38

37:38 One day, ¹⁶  as he was worshiping ¹⁷  in the temple of his god Nisroch, ¹⁸  his sons Adrammelech and Sharezer struck him down with the sword. ¹⁹  They ran away to the land of Ararat; his son Esarhaddon replaced him as king.

Isaiah 45:14

The Lord is the Nations’ Only Hope

45:14 This is what the Lord says:

“The profit ²⁰  of Egypt and the revenue ²¹  of Ethiopia,

along with the Sabeans, those tall men,

will be brought to you ²²  and become yours.

They will walk behind you, coming along in chains. ²³ 

They will bow down to you

and pray to you: ²⁴ 

‘Truly God is with ²⁵  you; he has no peer; ²⁶ 

there is no other God!’”

[1:4]  ¹ sn Having summoned the witnesses and announced the Lord’s accusation against Israel, Isaiah mourns the nation’s impending doom. The third person references to the Lord in the second half of the verse suggest that the quotation from the Lord (cf. vv. 2-3) has concluded.

[1:4]  ² tn Heb “Woe [to the] sinful nation.” The Hebrew term הוֹי, (hoy, “woe, ah”) was used in funeral laments (see 1 Kgs 13:30; Jer 22:18; 34:5) and carries the connotation of death. In highly dramatic fashion the prophet acts out Israel’s funeral in advance, emphasizing that their demise is inevitable if they do not repent soon.

[1:4]  ³ tn Or “sons” (NASB). The prophet contrasts four terms of privilege – nation, people, offspring, children – with four terms that depict Israel’s sinful condition in Isaiah’s day – sinful, evil, wrong, wicked (see J. A. Motyer, The Prophecy of Isaiah, 43).

[1:4]  ⁴ sn Holy One of Israel is one of Isaiah’s favorite divine titles for God. It pictures the Lord as the sovereign king who rules over his covenant people and exercises moral authority over them.

[1:4]  ⁵ tn Heb “they are estranged backward.” The LXX omits this statement, which presents syntactical problems and seems to be outside the synonymous parallelistic structure of the verse.

[18:5]  ⁶ tn Heb “and the unripe, ripening fruit is maturing.”

[18:5]  ⁷ tn On the meaning of זַלְזַל (zalzal, “shoot [of the vine] without fruit buds”) see HALOT 272 s.v. *זַלְזַל.

[18:5]  ⁸ tn Heb “the tendrils he will remove, he will cut off.”

[21:3]  ¹¹ tn Heb “my waist is filled with shaking [or “anguish”].”

[21:3]  ¹² tn Or perhaps, “bent over [in pain]”; cf. NRSV “I am bowed down.”

[30:30]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “the Lord will cause the splendor of his voice to be heard.”

[30:30]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “and reveal the lowering of his arm.”

[30:30]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “and a flame of consuming fire.”

[31:3]  ²¹ tn Heb “will extend”; KJV, ASV, NASB, NCV “stretch out.”

[31:3]  ²² tn Heb “together all of them will come to an end.”

[37:38]  ²⁶ sn The assassination of King Sennacherib probably took place in 681 b.c.

[37:38]  ²⁷ tn The verb that introduces this verse serves as a discourse particle and is untranslated; see note on “in the future” in 2:2.

[37:38]  ²⁸ sn No such Mesopotamian god is presently known. Perhaps the name Nisroch is a corruption of Nusku.

[37:38]  ²⁹ sn Extra-biblical sources also mention the assassination of Sennacherib, though they refer to only one assassin. See M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 239-40.

[45:14]  ³¹ tn Heb “labor,” which stands metonymically for the fruits of labor, either “monetary profit,” or “products.”

[45:14]  ³² tn Or perhaps, “merchandise” (so KJV, NASB, NIV, NRSV); NAB “the gain of Ethiopia”; CEV “the treasures of Ethiopia.”

[45:14]  ³³ tn Heb “they will pass over to you”; NASB, NIV “will come over to you”; CEV “will belong to you.”

[45:14]  ³⁴ sn Restored Israel is depicted here in typical ancient Near Eastern fashion as an imperial power that receives riches and slaves as tribute.

[45:14]  ³⁵ sn Israel’s vassals are portrayed as so intimidated and awed that they treat Israel as an intermediary to God or sub-deity.

[45:14]  ³⁶ tn Or perhaps, “among.” Cf. KJV, ASV “Surely God is in thee.”

[45:14]  ³⁷ tn Heb “there is no other” (so NIV, NRSV). The same phrase occurs at the end of v. 18, in v. 21, and at the end of v. 22.