Isaiah 13:3

13:3 I have given orders to my chosen soldiers; ¹ 

I have summoned the warriors through whom I will vent my anger, ² 

my boasting, arrogant ones. ³ 

Isaiah 14:8

14:8 The evergreens also rejoice over your demise, ⁴ 

as do the cedars of Lebanon, singing, ⁵ 

‘Since you fell asleep, ⁶ 

no woodsman comes up to chop us down!’ ⁷ 

Isaiah 14:10

14:10 All of them respond to you, saying:

‘You too have become weak like us!

You have become just like us!

Isaiah 21:12

21:12 The watchman replies,

“Morning is coming, but then night. ⁸ 

If you want to ask, ask;

come back again.” ⁹ 

Isaiah 26:12

26:12 O Lord, you make us secure, ¹⁰ 

for even all we have accomplished, you have done for us. ¹¹ 

Isaiah 28:29

28:29 This also comes from the Lord who commands armies,

who gives supernatural guidance and imparts great wisdom. ¹² 

Isaiah 43:13

43:13 From this day forward I am he;

no one can deliver from my power; ¹³ 

I will act, and who can prevent it?”

Isaiah 45:16

45:16 They will all be ashamed and embarrassed;

those who fashion idols will all be humiliated. ¹⁴ 

Isaiah 47:3

47:3 Let your private parts be exposed!

Your genitals will be on display! ¹⁵ 

I will get revenge;

I will not have pity on anyone,” ¹⁶ 

Isaiah 49:15

49:15 Can a woman forget her baby who nurses at her breast? ¹⁷ 

Can she withhold compassion from the child she has borne? ¹⁸ 

Even if mothers ¹⁹  were to forget,

I could never forget you! ²⁰ 

Isaiah 57:7

57:7 On every high, elevated hill you prepare your bed;

you go up there to offer sacrifices.

[13:3]  ¹ tn Heb “my consecrated ones,” i.e., those who have been set apart by God for the special task of carrying out his judgment.

[13:3]  ² tn Heb “my warriors with respect to my anger.”

[13:3]  ³ tn Heb “the boasting ones of my pride”; cf. ASV, NASB, NRSV “my proudly exulting ones.”

[14:8]  ⁴ tn Heb “concerning you.”

[14:8]  ⁵ tn The word “singing” is supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons. Note that the personified trees speak in the second half of the verse.

[14:8]  ⁶ tn Heb “lay down” (in death); cf. NAB “laid to rest.”

[14:8]  ⁷ tn Heb “the [wood]cutter does not come up against us.”

[21:12]  ⁷ sn Dumah will experience some relief, but it will be short-lived as night returns.

[21:12]  ⁸ sn The point of the watchman’s final instructions (“if you want to ask, ask; come again”) is unclear. Perhaps they are included to add realism to the dramatic portrayal. The watchman sends the questioner away with the words, “Feel free to come back and ask again.”

[26:12]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “O Lord, you establish peace for us.”

[26:12]  ¹¹ tc Some suggest emending גַּם כָּל (gam kol, “even all”) to כִּגְמֻל (kigmul, “according to the deed[s] of”) One might then translate “for according to what our deeds deserve, you have acted on our behalf.” Nevertheless, accepting the MT as it stands, the prophet affirms that Yahweh deserved all the credit for anything Israel had accomplished.

[28:29]  ¹³ sn Verses 23-29 emphasize that God possesses great wisdom and has established a natural order. Evidence of this can be seen in the way farmers utilize divinely imparted wisdom to grow and harvest crops. God’s dealings with his people will exhibit this same kind of wisdom and order. Judgment will be accomplished according to a divinely ordered timetable and, while severe enough, will not be excessive. Judgment must come, just as planting inevitably follows plowing. God will, as it were, thresh his people, but he will not crush them to the point where they will be of no use to him.

[43:13]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “hand” (so KJV, NASB, NIV, NRSV); NLT “No one can oppose what I do.”

[45:16]  ¹⁹ tn “together they will walk in humiliation, the makers of images.”

[47:3]  ²² tn Heb “Your shame will be seen.” In this context “shame” is a euphemism referring to the genitals.

[47:3]  ²³ tn Heb “I will not meet a man.” The verb פָּגַע (pagah) apparently carries the nuance “meet with kindness” here (cf. 64:5, and see BDB 803 s.v. Qal.2).

[49:15]  ²⁵ tn Heb “her suckling”; NASB “her nursing child.”

[49:15]  ²⁶ tn Heb “so as not to have compassion on the son of her womb?”

[49:15]  ²⁷ tn Heb “these” (so ASV, NASB).

[49:15]  ²⁸ 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.