Isaiah 10:14

10:14 My hand discovered the wealth of the nations, as if it were in a nest,

as one gathers up abandoned eggs,

I gathered up the whole earth.

There was no wing flapping,

or open mouth chirping.” ¹ 

Isaiah 19:11

19:11 The officials of Zoan are nothing but fools; ² 

Pharaoh’s wise advisers give stupid advice.

How dare you say to Pharaoh,

“I am one of the sages,

one well-versed in the writings of the ancient kings?” ³ 

Isaiah 33:21

33:21 Instead the Lord will rule there as our mighty king. ⁴ 

Rivers and wide streams will flow through it; ⁵ 

no war galley will enter; ⁶ 

no large ships will sail through. ⁷ 

Isaiah 37:24

37:24 Through your messengers you taunted the sovereign master, ⁸ 

‘With my many chariots I climbed up

the high mountains,

the slopes of Lebanon.

I cut down its tall cedars

and its best evergreens.

I invaded its most remote regions, ⁹ 

its thickest woods.

Isaiah 43:10

43:10 You are my witnesses,” says the Lord,

“my servant whom I have chosen,

so that you may consider ¹⁰  and believe in me,

and understand that I am he.

No god was formed before me,

and none will outlive me. ¹¹ 

Isaiah 45:18

45:18 For this is what the Lord says,

the one who created the sky –

he is the true God, ¹² 

the one who formed the earth and made it;

he established it,

he did not create it without order, ¹³ 

he formed it to be inhabited –

“I am the Lord, I have no peer.

Isaiah 45:21

45:21 Tell me! Present the evidence! ¹⁴ 

Let them consult with one another!

Who predicted this in the past?

Who announced it beforehand?

Was it not I, the Lord?

I have no peer, there is no God but me,

a God who vindicates and delivers; ¹⁵ 

there is none but me.

Isaiah 49:21

49:21 Then you will think to yourself, ¹⁶ 

‘Who bore these children for me?

I was bereaved and barren,

dismissed and divorced. ¹⁷ 

Who raised these children?

Look, I was left all alone;

where did these children come from?’”

Isaiah 49:23

49:23 Kings will be your children’s ¹⁸  guardians;

their princesses will nurse your children. ¹⁹ 

With their faces to the ground they will bow down to you

and they will lick the dirt on ²⁰  your feet.

Then you will recognize that I am the Lord;

those who wait patiently for me are not put to shame.

Isaiah 56:3

56:3 No foreigner who becomes a follower of ²¹  the Lord should say,

‘The Lord will certainly ²²  exclude me from his people.’

The eunuch should not say,

‘Look, I am like a dried-up tree.’”

Isaiah 57:11

57:11 Whom are you worried about?

Whom do you fear, that you would act so deceitfully

and not remember me

or think about me? ²³ 

Because I have been silent for so long, ²⁴ 

you are not afraid of me. ²⁵ 

Isaiah 66:4

66:4 So I will choose severe punishment ²⁶  for them;

I will bring on them what they dread,

because I called, and no one responded,

I spoke and they did not listen.

They did evil before me; ²⁷ 

they chose to do what displeases me.”

[10:14]  ¹ sn The Assyrians’ conquests were relatively unopposed, like robbing a bird’s nest of its eggs when the mother bird is absent.

[19:11]  ² tn Or “certainly the officials of Zoan are fools.” אַךְ (’akh) can carry the sense, “only, nothing but,” or “certainly, surely.”

[19:11]  ³ tn Heb “A son of wise men am I, a son of ancient kings.” The term בֶּן (ben, “son of”) could refer to literal descent, but many understand the word, at least in the first line, in its idiomatic sense of “member [of a guild].” See HALOT 138 s.v. בֶּן and J. N. Oswalt, Isaiah (NICOT), 1:371. If this is the case, then one can take the word in a figurative sense in the second line as well, the “son of ancient kings” being one devoted to their memory as preserved in their literature.

[33:21]  ³ tn Heb “But there [as] a mighty one [will be] the Lord for us.”

[33:21]  ⁴ tn Heb “a place of rivers, streams wide of hands [i.e., on both sides].”

[33:21]  ⁵ tn Heb “a ship of rowing will not go into it.”

[33:21]  ⁶ tn Heb “and a mighty ship will not pass through it.”

[37:24]  ⁴ tn The Hebrew term translated “sovereign master” here is אֲדֹנָי (’adonay).

[37:24]  ⁵ tn Heb “the height of its extremity”; ASV “its farthest height.”

[43:10]  ⁵ tn Or “know” (KJV, NAB, NASB, NIV, NRSV).

[43:10]  ⁶ tn Heb “and after me, there will not be”; NASB “there will be none after Me.”

[45:18]  ⁶ tn Heb “he [is] the God.” The article here indicates uniqueness.

[45:18]  ⁷ tn Or “unformed.” Gen 1:2 describes the world as “unformed” (תֹהוּ, tohu) prior to God’s creative work, but God then formed the world and made it fit for habitation.

[45:21]  ⁷ tn Heb “Declare! Bring near!”; NASB “Declare and set forth your case.” See 41:21.

[45:21]  ⁸ tn Or “a righteous God and deliverer”; NASB, NIV, NRSV “a righteous God and a Savior.”

[49:21]  ⁸ tn Heb “and you will say in your heart.”

[49:21]  ⁹ tn Or “exiled and thrust away”; NIV “exiled and rejected.”

[49:23]  ⁹ tn Heb “your,” but Zion here stands by metonymy for her children (see v. 22b).

[49:23]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “you.” See the preceding note.

[49:23]  ¹¹ tn Or “at your feet” (NAB, NIV); NLT “from your feet.”

[56:3]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “who attaches himself to.”

[56:3]  ¹¹ tn The infinitive absolute precedes the finite verb for emphasis.

[57:11]  ¹¹ tn Heb “you do not place [it] on your heart.”

[57:11]  ¹² tn Heb “Is it not [because] I have been silent, and from long ago?”

[57:11]  ¹³ sn God’s patience with sinful Israel has caused them to think that they can sin with impunity and suffer no consequences.

[66:4]  ¹² tn The precise meaning of the noun is uncertain. It occurs only here and in 3:4 (but see the note there). It appears to be derived from the verbal root עָלַל (’alal), which can carry the nuance “deal severely.”

[66:4]  ¹³ tn Heb “that which is evil in my eyes.”