Isaiah 14:2

14:2 Nations will take them and bring them back to their own place. Then the family of Jacob will make foreigners their servants as they settle in the Lord’s land. ¹  They will make their captors captives and rule over the ones who oppressed them.

Isaiah 24:18

24:18 The one who runs away from the sound of the terror

will fall into the pit; ² 

the one who climbs out of the pit,

will be trapped by the snare.

For the floodgates of the heavens ³  are opened up ⁴ 

and the foundations of the earth shake.

Isaiah 45:9

The Lord Gives a Warning

45:9 One who argues with his creator is in grave danger, ⁵ 

one who is like a mere ⁶  shard among the other shards on the ground!

The clay should not say to the potter, ⁷ 

“What in the world ⁸  are you doing?

Your work lacks skill!” ⁹ 

Isaiah 45:18

45:18 For this is what the Lord says,

the one who created the sky –

he is the true God, ¹⁰ 

the one who formed the earth and made it;

he established it,

he did not create it without order, ¹¹ 

he formed it to be inhabited –

“I am the Lord, I have no peer.

Isaiah 47:8

47:8 So now, listen to this,

O one who lives so lavishly, ¹² 

who lives securely,

who says to herself, ¹³ 

‘I am unique! No one can compare to me! ¹⁴ 

I will never have to live as a widow;

I will never lose my children.’ ¹⁵ 

Isaiah 49:26

49:26 I will make your oppressors eat their own flesh;

they will get drunk on their own blood, as if it were wine. ¹⁶ 

Then all humankind ¹⁷  will recognize that

I am the Lord, your deliverer,

your protector, ¹⁸  the powerful ruler of Jacob.” ¹⁹ 

[14:2]  ¹ tn Heb “and the house of Jacob will take possession of them [i.e., the nations], on the land of the Lord, as male servants and female servants.”

[24:18]  ² tn The verb that introduces this verse serves as a discourse particle and is untranslated; see note on “in the future” in 2:2.

[24:18]  ³ tn Heb “from the height”; KJV “from on high.”

[24:18]  ⁴ sn The language reflects the account of the Noahic Flood (see Gen 7:11).

[45:9]  ³ tn Heb “Woe [to] the one who argues with the one who formed him.”

[45:9]  ⁴ tn The words “one who is like a mere” are supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons and clarification.

[45:9]  ⁵ tn Heb “Should the clay say to the one who forms it?” The rhetorical question anticipates a reply, “Of course not!”

[45:9]  ⁶ tn The words “in the world” are supplied in the translation to approximate in English idiom the force of the sarcastic question.

[45:9]  ⁷ tn Heb “your work, there are no hands for it,” i.e., “your work looks like something made by a person who has no hands.”

[45:18]  ⁴ tn Heb “he [is] the God.” The article here indicates uniqueness.

[45:18]  ⁵ tn Or “unformed.” Gen 1:2 describes the world as “unformed” (תֹהוּ, tohu) prior to God’s creative work, but God then formed the world and made it fit for habitation.

[47:8]  ⁵ tn Or perhaps, “voluptuous one” (NAB); NAB “you sensual one”; NLT “You are a pleasure-crazy kingdom.”

[47:8]  ⁶ tn Heb “the one who says in her heart.”

[47:8]  ⁷ tn Heb “I [am], and besides me there is no other.” See Zeph 2:15.

[47:8]  ⁸ tn Heb “I will not live [as] a widow, and I will not know loss of children.”

[49:26]  ⁶ sn Verse 26a depicts siege warfare and bloody defeat. The besieged enemy will be so starved they will their own flesh. The bloodstained bodies lying on the blood-soaked battle site will look as if they collapsed in drunkenness.

[49:26]  ⁷ tn Heb “flesh” (so KJV, NASB).

[49:26]  ⁸ tn Heb “your redeemer.” See the note at 41:14.

[49:26]  ⁹ tn Heb “the powerful [one] of Jacob.” See 1:24.