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 37:4

37:4 Perhaps the Lord your God will hear all these things the chief adviser has spoken on behalf of his master, the king of Assyria, who sent him to taunt the living God. ²  When the Lord your God hears, perhaps he will punish him for the things he has said. ³  So pray for this remnant that remains.’” ⁴ 

Isaiah 51:3

51:3 Certainly the Lord will console Zion;

he will console all her ruins.

He will make her wilderness like Eden,

her desert like the Garden of the Lord.

Happiness and joy will be restored to ⁵  her,

thanksgiving and the sound of music.

Isaiah 58:13

58:13 You must ⁶  observe the Sabbath ⁷ 

rather than doing anything you please on my holy day. ⁸ 

You must look forward to the Sabbath ⁹ 

and treat the Lord’s holy day with respect. ¹⁰ 

You must treat it with respect by refraining from your normal activities,

and by refraining from your selfish pursuits and from making business deals. ¹¹ 

Isaiah 65:8

65:8 This is what the Lord says:

“When ¹²  juice is discovered in a cluster of grapes,

someone says, ‘Don’t destroy it, for it contains juice.’ ¹³ 

So I will do for the sake of my servants –

I will not destroy everyone. ¹⁴ 

[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.

[37:4]  ² tn Heb “all the words of the chief adviser whom his master, the king of Assyria, sent to taunt the living God.”

[37:4]  ³ tn Heb “and rebuke the words which the Lord your God hears.”

[37:4]  ⁴ tn Heb “and lift up a prayer on behalf of the remnant that is found.”

[51:3]  ³ tn Heb “found in” (so NAB, NASB, NIV, NRSV).

[58:13]  ⁴ tn Lit., “if you.” In the Hebrew text vv. 13-14 are one long conditional sentence. The protasis (“if” clauses appear in v. 13), with the apodosis (“then” clause) appearing in v. 14.

[58:13]  ⁵ tn Heb “if you turn from the Sabbath your feet.”

[58:13]  ⁶ tn Heb “[from] doing your desires on my holy day.” The Qumran scroll 1QIsa^a supplies the preposition מִן (min) on “doing.”

[58:13]  ⁷ tn Heb “and call the Sabbath a pleasure”; KJV, NAB, NASB, NIV, NRSV “a delight.”

[58:13]  ⁸ tn Heb “and [call] the holy [day] of the Lord honored.” On קָדוֹשׁ (qadosh, “holy”) as indicating a time period, see BDB 872 s.v. 2.e (cf. also Neh 8:9-11).

[58:13]  ⁹ tn Heb “and you honor it [by refraining] from accomplishing your ways, from finding your desire and speaking a word.” It is unlikely that the last phrase (“speaking a word”) is a prohibition against talking on the Sabbath; instead it probably refers to making transactions or plans (see Hos 10:4). Some see here a reference to idle talk (cf. 2 Sam 19:30).

[65:8]  ⁵ tn Heb “just as.” In the Hebrew text the statement is one long sentence, “Just as…, so I will do….”

[65:8]  ⁶ tn Heb “for a blessing is in it.”

[65:8]  ⁷ tn Heb “by not destroying everyone.”