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 25:8

25:8 he will swallow up death permanently. ² 

The sovereign Lord will wipe away the tears from every face,

and remove his people’s disgrace from all the earth.

Indeed, the Lord has announced it! ³ 

Isaiah 45:18

45:18 For this is what the Lord says,

the one who created the sky –

he is the true God, ⁴ 

the one who formed the earth and made it;

he established it,

he did not create it without order, ⁵ 

he formed it to be inhabited –

“I am the Lord, I have no peer.

Isaiah 49:6

49:6 he says, “Is it too insignificant a task for you to be my servant,

to reestablish the tribes of Jacob,

and restore the remnant ⁶  of Israel? ⁷ 

I will make you a light to the nations, ⁸ 

so you can bring ⁹  my deliverance to the remote regions of the earth.”

Isaiah 51:6

51:6 Look up at the sky!

Look at the earth below!

For the sky will dissipate ¹⁰  like smoke,

and the earth will wear out like clothes;

its residents will die like gnats.

But the deliverance I give ¹¹  is permanent;

the vindication I provide ¹²  will not disappear. ¹³ 

Isaiah 54:9

54:9 “As far as I am concerned, this is like in Noah’s time, ¹⁴ 

when I vowed that the waters of Noah’s flood ¹⁵  would never again cover the earth.

In the same way I have vowed that I will not be angry at you or shout at you.

Isaiah 55:10

55:10 ¹⁶ The rain and snow fall from the sky

and do not return,

but instead water the earth

and make it produce and yield crops,

and provide seed for the planter and food for those who must eat.

[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.

[25:8]  ² sn The image of the Lord “swallowing” death would be especially powerful, for death was viewed in Canaanite mythology and culture as a hungry enemy that swallows its victims. See the note at 5:14.

[25:8]  ³ tn Heb “has spoken” (so NAB, NASB, NIV, NRSV, NLT).

[45:18]  ³ tn Heb “he [is] the God.” The article here indicates uniqueness.

[45:18]  ⁴ 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.

[49:6]  ⁴ tn Heb “the protected [or “preserved”] ones.”

[49:6]  ⁵ sn The question is purely rhetorical; it does not imply that the servant was dissatisfied with his commission or that he minimized the restoration of Israel.

[49:6]  ⁶ tn See the note at 42:6.

[49:6]  ⁷ tn Heb “be” (so KJV, ASV); CEV “you must take.”

[51:6]  ⁵ tn Heb “will be torn in pieces.” The perfect indicates the certitude of the event, from the Lord’s rhetorical perspective.

[51:6]  ⁶ tn Heb “my deliverance.” The same Hebrew word can also be translated “salvation” (so KJV, NAB, NASB, NIV, NRSV, NLT); cf. CEV “victory.”

[51:6]  ⁷ tn Heb “my righteousness [or “vindication”].”

[51:6]  ⁸ tn Heb “will not be shattered [or “dismayed”].”

[54:9]  ⁶ tc The Hebrew text reads literally, “For [or “indeed”] the waters of Noah [is] this to me.” כִּי־מֵי (ki-me, “for the waters of”) should be emended to כְּמֵי (kÿmey, “like the days of”), which is supported by the Qumran scroll 1QIsa^a and all the ancient versions except LXX.

[54:9]  ⁷ tn Heb “the waters of Noah” (so NAB, NIV, NRSV).

[55:10]  ⁷ tn This verse begins in the Hebrew text with כִּי כַּאֲשֶׁר (ki ka’asher, “for, just as”), which is completed by כֵּן (ken, “so, in the same way”) at the beginning of v. 11. For stylistic reasons, this lengthy sentence is divided up into separate sentences in the translation.