Isaiah 14:24-27

14:24 ¹ The Lord who commands armies makes this solemn vow:

“Be sure of this:

Just as I have intended, so it will be;

just as I have planned, it will happen.

14:25 I will break Assyria ²  in my land,

I will trample them ³  underfoot on my hills.

Their yoke will be removed from my people,

the burden will be lifted from their shoulders. ⁴ 

14:26 This is the plan I have devised for the whole earth;

my hand is ready to strike all the nations.” ⁵ 

14:27 Indeed, ⁶  the Lord who commands armies has a plan,

and who can possibly frustrate it?

His hand is ready to strike,

and who can possibly stop it? ⁷ 

Isaiah 38:15

38:15 What can I say?

He has decreed and acted. ⁸ 

I will walk slowly all my years because I am overcome with grief. ⁹ 

Numbers 23:19

23:19 God is not a man, that he should lie,

nor a human being, ¹⁰  that he should change his mind.

Has he said, and will he not do it?

Or has he spoken, and will he not make it happen? ¹¹ 

Job 23:13

23:13 But he is unchangeable, ¹²  and who can change ¹³  him?

Whatever he ¹⁴  has desired, he does.

Jeremiah 50:45

50:45 So listen to what I, the Lord, have planned against Babylon,

what I intend to do to the people who inhabit the land of Babylonia. ¹⁵ 

Their little ones will be dragged off.

I will completely destroy their land because of what they have done.

Acts 5:39

5:39 but if ¹⁶  it is from God, you will not be able to stop them, or you may even be found ¹⁷  fighting against God.” He convinced them, ¹⁸ 

Ephesians 1:11

1:11 In Christ ¹⁹  we too have been claimed as God’s own possession, ²⁰  since we were predestined according to the one purpose of him who accomplishes all things according to the counsel of his will

Ephesians 3:11

3:11 This was according to ²¹  the eternal purpose that he accomplished in Christ Jesus our Lord,

[14:24]  ¹ sn Having announced the downfall of the Chaldean empire, the Lord appends to this prophecy a solemn reminder that the Assyrians, the major Mesopotamian power of Isaiah’s day, would be annihilated, foreshadowing what would subsequently happen to Babylon and the other hostile nations.

[14:25]  ² tn Heb “to break Assyria.”

[14:25]  ³ tn Heb “him.” This is a collective singular referring to the nation, or a reference to the king of Assyria who by metonymy stands for the entire nation.

[14:25]  ⁴ tn Heb “and his [i.e., Assyria’s] yoke will be removed from them [the people?], and his [Assyria’s] burden from his [the nation’s?] shoulder will be removed.” There are no antecedents in this oracle for the suffixes in the phrases “from them” and “from his shoulder.” Since the Lord’s land and hills are referred to in the preceding line and the statement seems to echo 10:27, it is likely that God’s people are the referents of the suffixes; the translation uses “my people” to indicate this.

[14:26]  ⁵ tn Heb “and this is the hand that is outstretched over all the nations.”

[14:27]  ⁶ tn Or “For” (KJV, NASB, NIV, NRSV).

[14:27]  ⁷ tn Heb “His hand is outstretched and who will turn it back?”

[38:15]  ⁸ tn Heb “and he has spoken and he has acted.”

[38:15]  ⁹ tn Heb “because of the bitterness of my soul.”

[23:19]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “son of man.”

[23:19]  ¹¹ tn The verb is the Hiphil of קוּם (qum, “to cause to rise; to make stand”). The meaning here is more of the sense of fulfilling the promises made.

[23:13]  ¹² tc The MT has “But he [is] in one.” Many add the word “mind” to capture the point that God is resolute and unchanging. Some commentators find this too difficult, and so change the text from בְאֶחָד (bÿ’ekhad, here “unchangeable”) to בָחָר (bakhar, “he has chosen”). The wording in the text is idiomatic and should be retained. R. Gordis (Job, 262) translates it “he is one, i.e., unchangeable, fixed, determined.” The preposition בּ (bet) is a bet essentiae – “and he [is] as one,” or “he is one” (see GKC 379 §119.i).

[23:13]  ¹³ tn Heb “cause him to return.”

[23:13]  ¹⁴ tn Or “his soul.”

[50:45]  ¹⁵ tn The words “of Babylonia” are not in the text but are implicit from the context. They have been supplied in the translation to clarify the referent.

[5:39]  ¹⁶ tn This is expressed in a first class condition, in contrast to the condition in v. 38b, which is third class. As such, v. 39 is rhetorically presented as the more likely option.

[5:39]  ¹⁷ tn According to L&N 39.32, the verb εὑρεθῆτε (Jeureqhte, an aorist passive subjunctive) may also be translated “find yourselves” – “lest you find yourselves fighting against God.” The Jewish leader Gamaliel is shown contemplating the other possible alternative about what is occurring.

[5:39]  ¹⁸ tn Grk “They were convinced by him.” This passive construction was converted to an active one (“He convinced them”) in keeping with contemporary English style. The phrase “He convinced them” is traditionally placed in Acts 5:40 by most English translations; the standard Greek critical text (represented by NA²⁷ and UBS⁴) places it at the end of v. 39.

[1:11]  ¹⁹ tn Grk “in whom,” as a continuation of the previous verse.

[1:11]  ²⁰ tn Grk “we were appointed by lot.” The notion of the verb κληρόω (klhrow) in the OT was to “appoint a portion by lot” (the more frequent cognate verb κληρονομέω [klhronomew] meant “obtain a portion by lot”). In the passive, as here, the idea is that “we were appointed [as a portion] by lot” (BDAG 548 s.v. κληρόω 1). The words “God’s own” have been supplied in the translation to clarify this sense of the verb. An alternative interpretation is that believers receive a portion as an inheritance: “In Christ we too have been appointed a portion of the inheritance.” See H. W. Hoehner, Ephesians, 226-27, for discussion on this interpretive issue.

[3:11]  ²¹ tn Grk “according to.” The verse is a prepositional phrase subordinate to v. 10.