Isaiah 12:4

12:4 At that time ¹  you will say:

“Praise the Lord!

Ask him for help! ² 

Publicize his mighty acts among the nations!

Make it known that he is unique! ³ 

Isaiah 25:2

25:2 Indeed, ⁴  you have made the city ⁵  into a heap of rubble,

the fortified town into a heap of ruins;

the fortress of foreigners ⁶  is no longer a city,

it will never be rebuilt.

Isaiah 31:7

31:7 For at that time ⁷  everyone will get rid of ⁸  the silver and gold idols your hands sinfully made. ⁹ 

Isaiah 36:4

36:4 The chief adviser said to them, “Tell Hezekiah: ‘This is what the great king, the king of Assyria, says: “What is your source of confidence? ¹⁰ 

Isaiah 39:8

39:8 Hezekiah said to Isaiah, “The Lord’s word which you have announced is appropriate.” ¹¹  Then he thought, ¹²  “For ¹³  there will be peace and stability during my lifetime.”

Isaiah 45:2

45:2 “I will go before you

and level mountains. ¹⁴ 

Bronze doors I will shatter

and iron bars ¹⁵  I will hack through.

Isaiah 49:15

49:15 Can a woman forget her baby who nurses at her breast? ¹⁶ 

Can she withhold compassion from the child she has borne? ¹⁷ 

Even if mothers ¹⁸  were to forget,

I could never forget you! ¹⁹ 

Isaiah 62:3

62:3 You will be a majestic crown in the hand of the Lord,

a royal turban in the hand of your God.

Isaiah 62:6

62:6 I ²⁰  post watchmen on your walls, O Jerusalem;

they should keep praying all day and all night. ²¹ 

You who pray to ²²  the Lord, don’t be silent!

Isaiah 64:4

64:4 Since ancient times no one has heard or perceived, ²³ 

no eye has seen any God besides you,

who intervenes for those who wait for him.

Isaiah 65:11

65:11 But as for you who abandon the Lord

and forget about worshiping at ²⁴  my holy mountain,

who prepare a feast for the god called ‘Fortune,’ ²⁵ 

and fill up wine jugs for the god called ‘Destiny’ ²⁶  –

[12:4]  ¹ tn Or “in that day” (KJV).

[12:4]  ² tn Heb “call in his name,” i.e., “invoke his name.”

[12:4]  ³ tn Heb “bring to remembrance that his name is exalted.” The Lord’s “name” stands here for his character and reputation.

[25:2]  ⁴ tn Or “For” (KJV, NAB, NASB, NRSV).

[25:2]  ⁵ tn The Hebrew text has “you have made from the city.” The prefixed mem (מ) on עִיר (’ir, “city”) was probably originally an enclitic mem suffixed to the preceding verb. See J. N. Oswalt, Isaiah (NICOT), 1:456, n. 3.

[25:2]  ⁶ tc Some with support from the LXX emend זָרִים (zarim, “foreigners”) to זֵדִים (zedim, “the insolent”).

[31:7]  ⁷ tn Or “in that day” (KJV).

[31:7]  ⁸ tn Heb “reject” (so NIV); NRSV, TEV, CEV, NLT “throw away.”

[31:7]  ⁹ tn Heb “the idols of their idols of silver and their idols of gold which your hands made for yourselves [in] sin.” חָטָא (khata’, “sin”) is understood as an adverbial accusative of manner. See J. N. Oswalt, Isaiah (NICOT), 1:573, n. 4.

[36:4]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “What is this object of trust in which you are trusting?”

[39:8]  ¹³ tn Heb “good” (so KJV, NASB, NIV, NRSV, NLT); NAB “favorable.”

[39:8]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “and he said.” The verb אָמַר (’amar, “say”) is sometimes used of what one thinks (that is, says to oneself).

[39:8]  ¹⁵ tn Or “surely”; cf. CEV “At least.”

[45:2]  ¹⁶ tc The form הֲדוּרִים (hadurim) makes little, if any, sense here. It is probably a corruption of an original הָרָרִים (hararim, “mountains”), the reduplicated form of הָר (har, “mountain”).

[45:2]  ¹⁷ tn That is, on the gates. Cf. CEV “break the iron bars on bronze gates.”

[49:15]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “her suckling”; NASB “her nursing child.”

[49:15]  ²⁰ tn Heb “so as not to have compassion on the son of her womb?”

[49:15]  ²¹ tn Heb “these” (so ASV, NASB).

[49:15]  ²² sn The argument of v. 15 seems to develop as follows: The Lord has an innate attachment to Zion, just like a mother does for her infant child. But even if mothers were to suddenly abandon their children, the Lord would never forsake Zion. In other words, the Lord’s attachment to Zion is like a mother’s attachment to her infant child, but even stronger.

[62:6]  ²² sn The speaker here is probably the prophet.

[62:6]  ²³ tn Heb “all day and all night continually they do not keep silent.” The following lines suggest that they pray for the Lord’s intervention and restoration of the city.

[62:6]  ²⁴ tn Or “invoke”; NIV “call on”; NASB, NRSV “remind.”

[64:4]  ²⁵ tn Heb “from ancient times they have not heard, they have not listened.”

[65:11]  ²⁸ tn The Hebrew text has simply, “forget.” The words “about worshiping at” are supplied in the translation for clarification.

[65:11]  ²⁹ tn The Hebrew has לַגַּד (laggad, “for Gad”), the name of a pagan deity. See HALOT 176 s.v. II גַּד 2.

[65:11]  ³⁰ tn The Hebrew has לַמְנִי (lamni, “for Meni”), the name of a pagan deity. See HALOT 602 s.v. מְגִי.