Isaiah 10:33

10:33 Look, the sovereign master, the Lord who commands armies,

is ready to cut off the branches with terrifying power. ¹ 

The tallest trees ²  will be cut down,

the loftiest ones will be brought low.

Isaiah 14:24

14:24 ³ The Lord who commands armies makes this solemn vow:

“Be sure of this:

Just as I have intended, so it will be;

just as I have planned, it will happen.

Isaiah 14:27

14:27 Indeed, ⁴  the Lord who commands armies has a plan,

and who can possibly frustrate it?

His hand is ready to strike,

and who can possibly stop it? ⁵ 

Isaiah 46:10-11

46:10 who announces the end from the beginning

and reveals beforehand ⁶  what has not yet occurred,

who says, ‘My plan will be realized,

I will accomplish what I desire,’

46:11 who summons an eagle ⁷  from the east,

from a distant land, one who carries out my plan.

Yes, I have decreed, ⁸ 

yes, I will bring it to pass;

I have formulated a plan,

yes, I will carry it out.

Jeremiah 47:6-7

47:6 How long will you cry out, ⁹  ‘Oh, sword of the Lord,

how long will it be before you stop killing? ¹⁰ 

Go back into your sheath!

Stay there and rest!’ ¹¹ 

47:7 But how can it rest ¹² 

when I, the Lord, have ¹³  given it orders?

I have ordered it to attack

the people of Ashkelon and the seacoast. ¹⁴ 

Jeremiah 51:62

51:62 Then say, ‘O Lord, you have announced that you will destroy this place so that no people or animals live in it any longer. Certainly it will lie desolate forever!’

Acts 4:28

4:28 to do as much as your power ¹⁵  and your plan ¹⁶  had decided beforehand ¹⁷  would happen.

Ephesians 1:11

1:11 In Christ ¹⁸  we too have been claimed as God’s own possession, ¹⁹  since we were predestined according to the one purpose of him who accomplishes all things according to the counsel of his will

Ephesians 3:11

3:11 This was according to ²⁰  the eternal purpose that he accomplished in Christ Jesus our Lord,

[10:33]  ¹ tc The Hebrew text reads “with terrifying power,” or “with a crash.” מַעֲרָצָה (ma’aratsah, “terrifying power” or “crash”) occurs only here. Several have suggested an emendation to מַעֲצָד (ma’atsad, “ax”) parallel to “ax” in v. 34; see HALOT 615 s.v. מַעֲצָד and H. Wildberger, Isaiah, 1:448.

[10:33]  ² tn Heb “the exalted of the height.” This could refer to the highest branches (cf. TEV) or the tallest trees (cf. NIV, NRSV).

[14:24]  ³ sn Having announced the downfall of the Chaldean empire, the Lord appends to this prophecy a solemn reminder that the Assyrians, the major Mesopotamian power of Isaiah’s day, would be annihilated, foreshadowing what would subsequently happen to Babylon and the other hostile nations.

[14:27]  ⁴ tn Or “For” (KJV, NASB, NIV, NRSV).

[14:27]  ⁵ tn Heb “His hand is outstretched and who will turn it back?”

[46:10]  ⁶ tn Or “from long ago”; KJV, NASB, NIV, NRSV “from ancient times.”

[46:11]  ⁷ tn Or, more generally, “a bird of prey” (so NAB, NASB, NIV, NRSV; see 18:6).

[46:11]  ⁸ tn Heb “spoken”; KJV “I have spoken it.”

[47:6]  ⁹ tn The words “How long will you cry out” are not in the text but some such introduction seems necessary because the rest of the speech assumes a personal subject.

[47:6]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “before you are quiet/at rest.”

[47:6]  ¹¹ sn The passage is highly figurative. The sword of the Lord, which is itself a figure of the destructive agency of the enemy armies, is here addressed as a person and is encouraged in rhetorical questions (the questions are designed to dissuade) to “be quiet,” “be at rest,” “be silent,” all of which is designed to get the Lord to call off the destruction against the Philistines.

[47:7]  ¹² tn The reading here follows the Greek, Syriac, and Latin versions. The Hebrew text reads “how can you rest” as a continuation of the second person in v. 6.

[47:7]  ¹³ tn Heb “When the Lord has.” The first person is again adopted because the Lord has been speaking.

[47:7]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “Against Ashkelon and the sea coast, there he has appointed it.” For the switch to the first person see the preceding translator’s note. “There” is poetical and redundant and the idea of “attacking” is implicit in “against.”

[4:28]  ¹⁵ tn Grk “hand,” here a metaphor for God’s strength or power or authority.

[4:28]  ¹⁶ tn Or “purpose,” “will.”

[4:28]  ¹⁷ tn Or “had predestined.” Since the term “predestine” is something of a technical theological term, not in wide usage in contemporary English, the translation “decide beforehand” was used instead (see L&N 30.84). God’s direction remains as the major theme.

[1:11]  ¹⁸ tn Grk “in whom,” as a continuation of the previous verse.

[1:11]  ¹⁹ tn Grk “we were appointed by lot.” The notion of the verb κληρόω (klhrow) in the OT was to “appoint a portion by lot” (the more frequent cognate verb κληρονομέω [klhronomew] meant “obtain a portion by lot”). In the passive, as here, the idea is that “we were appointed [as a portion] by lot” (BDAG 548 s.v. κληρόω 1). The words “God’s own” have been supplied in the translation to clarify this sense of the verb. An alternative interpretation is that believers receive a portion as an inheritance: “In Christ we too have been appointed a portion of the inheritance.” See H. W. Hoehner, Ephesians, 226-27, for discussion on this interpretive issue.

[3:11]  ²⁰ tn Grk “according to.” The verse is a prepositional phrase subordinate to v. 10.