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 41:8

The Lord Encourages His People

41:8 “You, my servant Israel,

Jacob whom I have chosen,

offspring of Abraham my friend, ¹ 

Isaiah 41:16

41:16 You will winnow them and the wind will blow them away;

the wind will scatter them.

You will rejoice in the Lord;

you will boast in the Holy One of Israel.

Isaiah 42:17

42:17 Those who trust in idols

will turn back and be utterly humiliated, ² 

those who say to metal images, ‘You are our gods.’”

Isaiah 48:4

48:4 I did this ³  because I know how stubborn you are.

Your neck muscles are like iron

and your forehead like bronze. ⁴ 

Isaiah 48:6

48:6 You have heard; now look at all the evidence! ⁵ 

Will you not admit that what I say is true? ⁶ 

From this point on I am announcing to you new events

that are previously unrevealed and you do not know about. ⁷ 

Isaiah 65:14

65:14 Look, my servants will shout for joy as happiness fills their hearts! ⁸ 

But you will cry out as sorrow fills your hearts; ⁹ 

you will wail because your spirits will be crushed. ¹⁰ 

[41:8]  ¹ tn Or perhaps, “covenantal partner” (see 1 Kgs 5:15 HT [5:1 ET]; 2 Chr 20:7).

[42:17]  ¹ tn Heb “be ashamed with shame”; ASV, NASB “be utterly put to shame.”

[48:4]  ¹ tn The words “I did this” are supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons. In the Hebrew text v. 4 is subordinated to v. 3.

[48:4]  ² sn The image is that of a person who has tensed the muscles of the face and neck as a sign of resolute refusal.

[48:6]  ¹ tn Heb “gaze [at] all of it”; KJV “see all this.”

[48:6]  ² tn Heb “[as for] you, will you not declare?”

[48:6]  ³ tn Heb “and hidden things, and you do not know them.”

[65:14]  ¹ tn Heb “from the good of the heart.”

[65:14]  ² tn Heb “from the pain of the heart.”

[65:14]  ³ tn Heb “from the breaking of the spirit.”