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 5:24

5:24 Therefore, as flaming fire ⁶  devours straw,

and dry grass disintegrates in the flames,

so their root will rot,

and their flower will blow away like dust. ⁷ 

For they have rejected the law of the Lord who commands armies,

they have spurned the commands ⁸  of the Holy One of Israel. ⁹ 

Isaiah 9:17

9:17 So the sovereign master was not pleased ¹⁰  with their young men,

he took no pity ¹¹  on their orphans and widows;

for the whole nation was godless ¹²  and did wicked things, ¹³ 

every mouth was speaking disgraceful words. ¹⁴ 

Despite all this, his anger does not subside,

and his hand is ready to strike again. ¹⁵ 

Isaiah 9:21

9:21 Manasseh fought against ¹⁶  Ephraim,

and Ephraim against Manasseh;

together they fought against Judah.

Despite all this, his anger does not subside,

and his hand is ready to strike again. ¹⁷ 

Isaiah 36:7

36:7 Perhaps you will tell me, ‘We are trusting in the Lord our God.’ But Hezekiah is the one who eliminated his high places and altars and then told the people of Judah and Jerusalem, ‘You must worship at this altar.’

Isaiah 37:16

37:16 “O Lord who commands armies, O God of Israel, who is enthroned on the cherubim! ¹⁸  You alone are God over all the kingdoms of the earth. You made the sky ¹⁹  and the earth.

Isaiah 38:5

38:5 “Go and tell Hezekiah: ‘This is what the Lord God of your ancestor ²⁰  David says: “I have heard your prayer; I have seen your tears. Look, I will add fifteen years to your life,

Isaiah 51:22

51:22 This is what your sovereign master, ²¹  the Lord your God, says:

“Look, I have removed from your hand

the cup of intoxicating wine, ²² 

the goblet full of my anger. ²³ 

You will no longer have to drink it.

Isaiah 66:20

66:20 They will bring back all your countrymen ²⁴  from all the nations as an offering to the Lord. They will bring them ²⁵  on horses, in chariots, in wagons, on mules, and on camels ²⁶  to my holy hill Jerusalem,” says the Lord, “just as the Israelites bring offerings to the Lord’s temple in ritually pure containers.

[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.

[5:24]  ⁶ tn Heb “a tongue of fire” (so NASB), referring to a tongue-shaped flame.

[5:24]  ⁷ sn They are compared to a flowering plant that withers quickly in a hot, arid climate.

[5:24]  ⁸ tn Heb “the word.”

[5:24]  ⁹ sn See the note on the phrase “the Holy One of Israel” in 1:4.

[9:17]  ¹¹ tn The Qumran scroll 1QIsa^a has לא יחמול (“he did not spare”) which is an obvious attempt to tighten the parallelism (note “he took no pity” in the next line). Instead of taking שָׂמַח (samakh) in one of its well attested senses (“rejoice over, be pleased with”), some propose, with support from Arabic, a rare homonymic root meaning “be merciful.”

[9:17]  ¹² tn The translation understands the prefixed verbs יִשְׂמַח (yismakh) and יְרַחֵם (yÿrakhem) as preterites without vav (ו) consecutive. (See v. 11 and the note on “he stirred up.”)

[9:17]  ¹³ tn Or “defiled”; cf. ASV “profane”; NAB “profaned”; NIV “ungodly.”

[9:17]  ¹⁴ tn מֵרַע (mera’) is a Hiphil participle from רָעַע (ra’a’, “be evil”). The intransitive Hiphil has an exhibitive force here, indicating that they exhibited outwardly the evidence of an inward condition by committing evil deeds.

[9:17]  ¹⁵ tn Or “foolishness” (NASB), here in a moral-ethical sense.

[9:17]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “in all this his anger is not turned, and still his hand is outstretched.”

[9:21]  ¹⁶ tn The words “fought against” are supplied in the translation both here and later in this verse for stylistic reasons.

[9:21]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “in all this his anger is not turned, and still his hand is outstretched” (KJV and ASV both similar); NIV “his hand is still upraised.”

[37:16]  ²¹ sn Cherubim (singular “cherub”) refers to the images of winged angelic creatures that were above the ark of the covenant.

[37:16]  ²² tn Or “the heavens.” The Hebrew term שָׁמַיִם (shamayim) may be translated “heavens” or “sky” depending on the context.

[38:5]  ²⁶ tn Heb “father” (so KJV, NAB, NIV).

[51:22]  ³¹ tn The Hebrew term translated “sovereign master” here is אֲדֹנָי (’adonay).

[51:22]  ³² tn Heb “the cup of [= that causes] staggering” (so ASV, NAB, NRSV); NASB “the cup of reeling.”

[51:22]  ³³ tn Heb “the goblet of the cup of my anger.”

[66:20]  ³⁶ tn Heb “brothers” (so NIV); NCV “fellow Israelites.”

[66:20]  ³⁷ tn The words “they will bring them” are supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[66:20]  ³⁸ tn The precise meaning of this word is uncertain. Some suggest it refers to “chariots.” See HALOT 498 s.v. *כִּרְכָּרָה.