Isaiah 2:12

2:12 Indeed, the Lord who commands armies has planned a day of judgment, ¹ 

for ²  all the high and mighty,

for all who are proud – they will be humiliated;

Isaiah 5:9

5:9 The Lord who commands armies told me this: ³ 

“Many houses will certainly become desolate,

large, impressive houses will have no one living in them. ⁴ 

Isaiah 13:20

13:20 No one will live there again;

no one will ever reside there again. ⁵ 

No bedouin ⁶  will camp ⁷  there,

no shepherds will rest their flocks ⁸  there.

Isaiah 14:8

14:8 The evergreens also rejoice over your demise, ⁹ 

as do the cedars of Lebanon, singing, ¹⁰ 

‘Since you fell asleep, ¹¹ 

no woodsman comes up to chop us down!’ ¹² 

Isaiah 14:12

14:12 Look how you have fallen from the sky,

O shining one, son of the dawn! ¹³ 

You have been cut down to the ground,

O conqueror ¹⁴  of the nations! ¹⁵ 

Isaiah 14:16

14:16 Those who see you stare at you,

they look at you carefully, thinking: ¹⁶ 

“Is this the man who shook the earth,

the one who made kingdoms tremble?

Isaiah 21:10

21:10 O my downtrodden people, crushed like stalks on the threshing floor, ¹⁷ 

what I have heard

from the Lord who commands armies,

the God of Israel,

I have reported to you.

Isaiah 21:16

21:16 For this is what the sovereign master ¹⁸  has told me: “Within exactly one year ¹⁹  all the splendor of Kedar will come to an end.

Isaiah 31:7

31:7 For at that time ²⁰  everyone will get rid of ²¹  the silver and gold idols your hands sinfully made. ²² 

Isaiah 33:19

33:19 You will no longer see a defiant ²³  people

whose language you do not comprehend, ²⁴ 

whose derisive speech you do not understand. ²⁵ 

Isaiah 41:13

41:13 For I am the Lord your God,

the one who takes hold of your right hand,

who says to you, ‘Don’t be afraid, I am helping you.’

Isaiah 45:24

45:24 they will say about me,

“Yes, the Lord is a powerful deliverer.”’” ²⁶ 

All who are angry at him will cower before him. ²⁷ 

Isaiah 52:6

52:6 For this reason my people will know my name,

for this reason they will know ²⁸  at that time ²⁹  that I am the one who says,

‘Here I am.’”

Isaiah 55:1

The Lord Gives an Invitation

55:1 “Hey, ³⁰  all who are thirsty, come to the water!

You who have no money, come!

Buy and eat!

Come! Buy wine and milk

without money and without cost! ³¹ 

Isaiah 59:5

59:5 They hatch the eggs of a poisonous snake

and spin a spider’s web.

Whoever eats their eggs will die,

a poisonous snake is hatched. ³² 

Isaiah 59:15

59:15 Honesty has disappeared;

the one who tries to avoid evil is robbed.

The Lord watches and is displeased, ³³ 

for there is no justice.

Isaiah 63:12

63:12 the one who made his majestic power available to Moses, ³⁴ 

who divided the water before them,

gaining for himself a lasting reputation, ³⁵ 

[2:12]  ¹ tn Heb “indeed [or “for”] the Lord who commands armies [traditionally, the Lord of hosts] has a day.”

[2:12]  ² tn Or “against” (NAB, NASB, NRSV).

[5:9]  ³ tn Heb “in my ears, the Lord who commands armies [traditionally, the Lord of hosts].”

[5:9]  ⁴ tn Heb “great and good [houses], without a resident.”

[13:20]  ⁵ tn Heb “she will not be inhabited forever, and she will not be dwelt in to generation and generation (i.e., forever).” The Lord declares that Babylon, personified as a woman, will not be inhabited. In other words, her people will be destroyed and the Chaldean empire will come to a permanent end.

[13:20]  ⁶ tn Or “Arab” (NAB, NASB, NIV); cf. CEV, NLT “nomads.”

[13:20]  ⁷ tn יַהֵל (yahel) is probably a corrupted form of יֶאֱהַל (ye’ehal). See GKC 186 §68.k.

[13:20]  ⁸ tn The words “their flocks” are supplied in the translation for clarification. The Hebrew text does not supply the object here, but see Jer 33:12.

[14:8]  ⁷ tn Heb “concerning you.”

[14:8]  ⁸ tn The word “singing” is supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons. Note that the personified trees speak in the second half of the verse.

[14:8]  ⁹ tn Heb “lay down” (in death); cf. NAB “laid to rest.”

[14:8]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “the [wood]cutter does not come up against us.”

[14:12]  ⁹ tn The Hebrew text has הֵילֵל בֶּן־שָׁחַר (helel ben-shakhar, “Helel son of Shachar”), which is probably a name for the morning star (Venus) or the crescent moon. See HALOT 245 s.v. הֵילֵל.

[14:12]  ¹⁰ tn Some understand the verb to from חָלַשׁ (khalash, “to weaken”), but HALOT 324 s.v. II חלשׁ proposes a homonym here, meaning “to defeat.”

[14:12]  ¹¹ sn In this line the taunting kings hint at the literal identity of the king, after likening him to the god Helel and a tree. The verb גָדַע (gada’, “cut down”) is used of chopping down trees in 9:10 and 10:33.

[14:16]  ¹¹ tn The word “thinking” is supplied in the translation in order to make it clear that the next line records their thoughts as they gaze at him.

[21:10]  ¹³ tn Heb “My trampled one, and the son of the threshing floor.”

[21:16]  ¹⁵ tn The Hebrew term translated “sovereign master” here is אֲדֹנָי (’adonay).

[21:16]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “in still a year, like the years of a hired worker.” See the note at 16:14.

[31:7]  ¹⁷ tn Or “in that day” (KJV).

[31:7]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “reject” (so NIV); NRSV, TEV, CEV, NLT “throw away.”

[31:7]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “the idols of their idols of silver and their idols of gold which your hands made for yourselves [in] sin.” חָטָא (khata’, “sin”) is understood as an adverbial accusative of manner. See J. N. Oswalt, Isaiah (NICOT), 1:573, n. 4.

[33:19]  ¹⁹ tn The Hebrew form נוֹעָז (no’az) is a Niphal participle derived from יָעַז (ya’az, an otherwise unattested verb) or from עָזָז (’azaz, “be strong,” unattested elsewhere in the Niphal). Some prefer to emend the form to לוֹעֵז (lo’ez) which occurs in Ps 114:1 with the meaning “speak a foreign language.” See HALOT 809 s.v. עזז, 533 s.v. לעז. In this case, one might translate “people who speak a foreign language.”

[33:19]  ²⁰ tn Heb “a people too deep of lip to hear.” The phrase “deep of lip” must be an idiom meaning “lips that speak words that are unfathomable [i.e., incomprehensible].”

[33:19]  ²¹ tn Heb “derision of tongue there is no understanding.” The Niphal of לָעַג (la’ag) occurs only here. In the Qal and Hiphil the verb means “to deride, mock.” A related noun is used in 28:11.

[45:24]  ²¹ tn Heb “‘Yes, in the Lord,’ one says about me, ‘is deliverance and strength.’”

[45:24]  ²² tn Heb “will come to him and be ashamed.”

[52:6]  ²³ tn The verb is understood by ellipsis (note the preceding line).

[52:6]  ²⁴ tn Heb “in that day” (so KJV, NASB, NIV, NRSV).

[55:1]  ²⁵ tn The Hebrew term הוֹי (hoy, “woe, ah”) was used in funeral laments and is often prefixed to judgment oracles for rhetorical effect. But here it appears to be a simple interjection, designed to grab the audience’s attention. Perhaps there is a note of sorrow or pity. See BDB 223 s.v.

[55:1]  ²⁶ sn The statement is an oxymoron. Its ironic quality adds to its rhetorical impact. The statement reminds one of the norm (one must normally buy commodities) as it expresses the astounding offer. One might paraphrase the statement: “Come and take freely what you normally have to pay for.”

[59:5]  ²⁷ tn Heb “that which is pressed in hatches [as] a snake.”

[59:15]  ²⁹ tn Heb “and it is displeasing in his eyes.”

[63:12]  ³¹ tn Heb “who caused to go at the right hand of Moses the arm of his splendor.”

[63:12]  ³² tn Heb “making for himself a lasting name.”