Isaiah 17:11

17:11 The day you begin cultivating, you do what you can to make it grow; ¹ 

the morning you begin planting, you do what you can to make it sprout.

Yet the harvest will disappear ²  in the day of disease

and incurable pain.

Isaiah 43:5

43:5 Don’t be afraid, for I am with you.

From the east I will bring your descendants;

from the west I will gather you.

Isaiah 48:19

48:19 Your descendants would have been as numerous as sand, ³ 

and your children ⁴  like its granules.

Their name would not have been cut off

and eliminated from my presence. ⁵ 

Isaiah 59:21

59:21 “As for me, this is my promise to ⁶  them,” says the Lord. “My spirit, who is upon you, and my words, which I have placed in your mouth, will not depart from your mouth or from the mouths of your children and descendants from this time forward,” ⁷  says the Lord.

Isaiah 44:3

44:3 For I will pour water on the parched ground ⁸ 

and cause streams to flow ⁹  on the dry land.

I will pour my spirit on your offspring

and my blessing on your children.

Isaiah 30:23

30:23 He will water the seed you plant in the ground,

and the ground will produce crops in abundance. ¹⁰ 

At that time ¹¹  your cattle will graze in wide pastures.

[17:11]  ¹ tn Heb “in the day of your planting you [?].” The precise meaning of the verb תְּשַׂגְשֵׂגִי (tÿsagsegi) is unclear. It is sometimes derived from שׂוּג/סוּג (sug, “to fence in”; see BDB 691 s.v. II סוּג). In this case one could translate “you build a protective fence.” However, the parallelism is tighter if one derives the form from שָׂגָא/שָׂגָה (saga’/sagah, “to grow”); see J. N. Oswalt, Isaiah (NICOT), 1:351, n. 4. For this verb, see BDB 960 s.v. שָׂגָא.

[17:11]  ² tc The Hebrew text has, “a heap of harvest.” However, better sense is achieved if נֵד (ned, “heap”) is emended to a verb. Options include נַד (nad, Qal perfect third masculine singular from נָדַד [nadad, “flee, depart”]), נָדַד (Qal perfect third masculine singular from נָדַד), נֹדֵד (noded, Qal active participle from נָדַד), and נָד (nad, Qal perfect third masculine singular, or participle masculine singular, from נוּד [nud, “wander, flutter”]). See BDB 626 s.v. נוּד and HALOT 672 s.v. I נדד. One could translate literally: “[the harvest] departs,” or “[the harvest] flies away.”

[48:19]  ³ tn Heb “like sand”; NCV “as many as the grains of sand.”

[48:19]  ⁴ tn Heb “and the issue from your inner parts.”

[48:19]  ⁵ tn Heb “and his name would not be cut off and would not be destroyed from before me.”

[59:21]  ⁵ tn Or “my covenant with” (so many English versions); NCV “my agreement with.”

[59:21]  ⁶ tn Heb “from now and on into the future.”

[44:3]  ⁷ tn Heb “the thirsty.” Parallelism suggests that dry ground is in view (see “dry land” in the next line.)

[44:3]  ⁸ tn Heb “and streams”; KJV “floods.” The verb “cause…to flow” is supplied in the second line for clarity and for stylistic reasons.

[30:23]  ⁹ tn Heb “and he will give rain for your seed which you plant in the ground, and food [will be] the produce of the ground, and it will be rich and abundant.”

[30:23]  ¹⁰ tn Or “in that day” (KJV).