Isaiah 10:15

10:15 Does an ax exalt itself over the one who wields it,

or a saw magnify itself over the one who cuts with it? ¹ 

As if a scepter should brandish the one who raises it,

or a staff should lift up what is not made of wood!

Isaiah 47:8

47:8 So now, listen to this,

O one who lives so lavishly, ² 

who lives securely,

who says to herself, ³ 

‘I am unique! No one can compare to me! ⁴ 

I will never have to live as a widow;

I will never lose my children.’ ⁵ 

Isaiah 49:26

49:26 I will make your oppressors eat their own flesh;

they will get drunk on their own blood, as if it were wine. ⁶ 

Then all humankind ⁷  will recognize that

I am the Lord, your deliverer,

your protector, ⁸  the powerful ruler of Jacob.” ⁹ 

Isaiah 54:1

Zion Will Be Secure

54:1 “Shout for joy, O barren one who has not given birth!

Give a joyful shout and cry out, you who have not been in labor!

For the children of the desolate one are more numerous

than the children of the married woman,” says the Lord.

Isaiah 66:4

66:4 So I will choose severe punishment ¹⁰  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; ¹¹ 

they chose to do what displeases me.”

[10:15]  ¹ tn Heb “the one who pushes it back and forth”; KJV “him that shaketh it”; ASV “him that wieldeth it.”

[47:8]  ² tn Or perhaps, “voluptuous one” (NAB); NAB “you sensual one”; NLT “You are a pleasure-crazy kingdom.”

[47:8]  ³ tn Heb “the one who says in her heart.”

[47:8]  ⁴ tn Heb “I [am], and besides me there is no other.” See Zeph 2:15.

[47:8]  ⁵ tn Heb “I will not live [as] a widow, and I will not know loss of children.”

[49:26]  ³ sn Verse 26a depicts siege warfare and bloody defeat. The besieged enemy will be so starved they will their own flesh. The bloodstained bodies lying on the blood-soaked battle site will look as if they collapsed in drunkenness.

[49:26]  ⁴ tn Heb “flesh” (so KJV, NASB).

[49:26]  ⁵ tn Heb “your redeemer.” See the note at 41:14.

[49:26]  ⁶ tn Heb “the powerful [one] of Jacob.” See 1:24.

[66:4]  ⁴ 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]  ⁵ tn Heb “that which is evil in my eyes.”