Isaiah 2:11

2:11 Proud men will be brought low,

arrogant men will be humiliated; ¹ 

the Lord alone will be exalted ² 

in that day.

Isaiah 2:17

2:17 Proud men will be humiliated,

arrogant men will be brought low; ³ 

the Lord alone will be exalted ⁴ 

in that day.

Isaiah 26:13

26:13 O Lord, our God,

masters other than you have ruled us,

but we praise your name alone.

Isaiah 5:8

Disaster is Coming

5:8 Those who accumulate houses are as good as dead, ⁵ 

those who also accumulate landed property ⁶ 

until there is no land left, ⁷ 

and you are the only landowners remaining within the land. ⁸ 

Isaiah 37:20

37:20 Now, O Lord our God, rescue us from his power, so all the kingdoms of the earth may know that you alone are the Lord.” ⁹ 

Isaiah 44:24

The Lord Empowers Cyrus

44:24 This is what the Lord, your protector, ¹⁰  says,

the one who formed you in the womb:

“I am the Lord, who made everything,

who alone stretched out the sky,

who fashioned the earth all by myself, ¹¹ 

Isaiah 63:3

63:3 “I have stomped grapes in the winepress all by myself;

no one from the nations joined me.

I stomped on them ¹²  in my anger;

I trampled them down in my rage.

Their juice splashed on my garments,

and stained ¹³  all my clothes.

Isaiah 37:16

37:16 “O Lord who commands armies, O God of Israel, who is enthroned on the cherubim! ¹⁴  You alone are God over all the kingdoms of the earth. You made the sky ¹⁵  and the earth.

Isaiah 49:21

49:21 Then you will think to yourself, ¹⁶ 

‘Who bore these children for me?

I was bereaved and barren,

dismissed and divorced. ¹⁷ 

Who raised these children?

Look, I was left all alone;

where did these children come from?’”

[2:11]  ¹ tn Heb “and the eyes of the pride of men will be brought low, and the arrogance of men will be brought down.” The repetition of the verbs שָׁפַל (shafal) and שָׁחָח (shakhakh) from v. 9 draws attention to the appropriate nature of the judgment. Those proud men who “bow low” before idols will be forced to “bow low” before God when he judges their sin.

[2:11]  ² tn Or “elevated”; CEV “honored.”

[2:17]  ³ tn Heb “and the pride of men will be brought down, and the arrogance of men will be brought low.” As in v. 11, the repetition of the verbs שָׁפַל (shafal) and שָׁחָח (shakhakh) from v. 9 draws attention to the appropriate nature of the judgment. Those proud men who “bow low” before idols will be forced to “bow low” before God when he judges their sin.

[2:17]  ⁴ tn Or “elevated”; NCV “praised”; CEV “honored.”

[5:8]  ⁵ tn Heb “Woe [to] those who make a house touch a house.” The exclamation הוֹי (hoy, “woe, ah”) was used in funeral laments (see 1 Kgs 13:30; Jer 22:18; 34:5) and carries the connotation of death.

[5:8]  ⁶ tn Heb “[who] bring a field near a field.”

[5:8]  ⁷ tn Heb “until the end of the place”; NASB “until there is no more room.”

[5:8]  ⁸ tn Heb “and you are made to dwell alone in the midst of the land.”

[37:20]  ⁷ tn The parallel text in 2 Kgs 19:19 reads, “that you, Lord, are the only God.”

[44:24]  ⁹ tn Heb “your redeemer.” See the note at 41:14.

[44:24]  ¹⁰ tn The consonantal text (Kethib) has “Who [was] with me?” The marginal reading (Qere) is “from with me,” i.e., “by myself.” See BDB 87 s.v. II אֵת 4.c.

[63:3]  ¹¹ sn Nations, headed by Edom, are the object of the Lord’s anger (see v. 6). He compares military slaughter to stomping on grapes in a vat.

[63:3]  ¹² tn Heb “and I stained.” For discussion of the difficult verb form, see HALOT 170 s.v. II גאל. Perhaps the form is mixed, combining the first person forms of the imperfect (note the alef prefix) and perfect (note the תי- ending).

[37:16]  ¹³ sn Cherubim (singular “cherub”) refers to the images of winged angelic creatures that were above the ark of the covenant.

[37:16]  ¹⁴ tn Or “the heavens.” The Hebrew term שָׁמַיִם (shamayim) may be translated “heavens” or “sky” depending on the context.

[49:21]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “and you will say in your heart.”

[49:21]  ¹⁶ tn Or “exiled and thrust away”; NIV “exiled and rejected.”