Isaiah 13:20

13:20 No one will live there again;

no one will ever reside there again. ¹ 

No bedouin ²  will camp ³  there,

no shepherds will rest their flocks ⁴  there.

Isaiah 28:28

28:28 Grain is crushed,

though one certainly does not thresh it forever.

The wheel of one’s wagon rolls over it,

but his horses do not crush it.

Isaiah 34:10

34:10 Night and day it will burn; ⁵ 

its smoke will ascend continually.

Generation after generation it will be a wasteland

and no one will ever pass through it again.

Isaiah 57:16

57:16 For I will not be hostile ⁶  forever

or perpetually angry,

for then man’s spirit would grow faint before me, ⁷ 

the life-giving breath I created.

Isaiah 25:8

25:8 he will swallow up death permanently. ⁸ 

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! ⁹ 

Isaiah 33:20

33:20 Look at Zion, the city where we hold religious festivals!

You ¹⁰  will see Jerusalem, ¹¹ 

a peaceful settlement,

a tent that stays put; ¹² 

its stakes will never be pulled up;

none of its ropes will snap in two.

[13:20]  ¹ tn Heb “she will not be inhabited forever, and she will not be dwelt in to generation and generation (i.e., forever).” The Lord declares that Babylon, personified as a woman, will not be inhabited. In other words, her people will be destroyed and the Chaldean empire will come to a permanent end.

[13:20]  ² tn Or “Arab” (NAB, NASB, NIV); cf. CEV, NLT “nomads.”

[13:20]  ³ tn יַהֵל (yahel) is probably a corrupted form of יֶאֱהַל (ye’ehal). See GKC 186 §68.k.

[13:20]  ⁴ tn The words “their flocks” are supplied in the translation for clarification. The Hebrew text does not supply the object here, but see Jer 33:12.

[34:10]  ⁵ tn Heb “it will not be extinguished.”

[57:16]  ⁹ tn Or perhaps, “argue,” or “accuse” (so NAB, NIV, NRSV).

[57:16]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “for a spirit from before me would be faint.”

[25:8]  ¹³ 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]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “has spoken” (so NAB, NASB, NIV, NRSV, NLT).

[33:20]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “your eyes” (so NASB, NIV, NRSV).

[33:20]  ¹⁸ map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

[33:20]  ¹⁹ tn Or “that does not travel”; NASB “which shall not be folded.”