Isaiah 2:2

2:2 In the future ¹ 

the mountain of the Lord’s temple will endure ² 

as the most important of mountains,

and will be the most prominent of hills. ³ 

All the nations will stream to it,

Isaiah 11:10

Israel is Reclaimed and Reunited

11:10 At that time ⁴  a root from Jesse ⁵  will stand like a signal flag for the nations. Nations will look to him for guidance, ⁶  and his residence will be majestic.

Isaiah 25:6

25:6 The Lord who commands armies will hold a banquet for all the nations on this mountain. ⁷ 

At this banquet there will be plenty of meat and aged wine –

tender meat and choicest wine. ⁸ 

Isaiah 42:5

42:5 This is what the true God, ⁹  the Lord, says –

the one who created the sky and stretched it out,

the one who fashioned the earth and everything that lives on it, ¹⁰ 

the one who gives breath to the people on it,

and life to those who live on it: ¹¹ 

Isaiah 42:10

42:10 Sing to the Lord a brand new song!

Praise him ¹²  from the horizon of the earth,

you who go down to the sea, and everything that lives in it, ¹³ 

you coastlands ¹⁴  and those who live there!

Isaiah 42:19

42:19 My servant is truly blind,

my messenger is truly deaf.

My covenant partner, ¹⁵  the servant of the Lord, is truly blind. ¹⁶ 

Isaiah 59:19

59:19 In the west, people respect ¹⁷  the Lord’s reputation; ¹⁸ 

in the east they recognize his splendor. ¹⁹ 

For he comes like a rushing ²⁰  stream

driven on by wind sent from the Lord. ²¹ 

Isaiah 60:5

60:5 Then you will look and smile, ²² 

you will be excited and your heart will swell with pride. ²³ 

For the riches of distant lands ²⁴  will belong to you

and the wealth of nations will come to you.

Isaiah 60:11

60:11 Your gates will remain open at all times;

they will not be shut during the day or at night,

so that the wealth of nations may be delivered,

with their kings leading the way. ²⁵ 

Isaiah 61:11

61:11 For just as the ground produces its crops

and a garden yields its produce,

so the sovereign Lord will cause deliverance ²⁶  to grow,

and give his people reason to praise him in the sight of all the nations. ²⁷ 

[2:2]  ¹ tn Heb “in the end of the days.” This phrase may refer generally to the future, or more technically to the final period of history. See BDB 31 s.v. ַאחֲרִית. The verse begins with a verb that functions as a “discourse particle” and is not translated. In numerous places throughout the OT, the “to be” verb with a prefixed conjunction (וְהָיָה [vÿhayah] and וַיְהִי [vayÿhi]) occurs in this fashion to introduce a circumstantial clause and does not require translation.

[2:2]  ² tn Or “be established” (KJV, NIV, NRSV).

[2:2]  ³ tn Heb “as the chief of the mountains, and will be lifted up above the hills.” The image of Mount Zion being elevated above other mountains and hills pictures the prominence it will attain in the future.

[11:10]  ⁴ tn Or “in that day” (KJV). The verb that introduces this verse serves as a discourse particle and is untranslated; see note on “in the future” in 2:2.

[11:10]  ⁵ sn See the note at v. 1.

[11:10]  ⁶ tn Heb “ a root from Jesse, which stands for a signal flag of the nations, of him nations will inquire” [or “seek”].

[25:6]  ⁷ sn That is, Mount Zion (see 24:23); cf. TEV; NLT “In Jerusalem.”

[25:6]  ⁸ tn Heb “And the Lord who commands armies [traditionally, the Lord of hosts] will make for all the nations on this mountain a banquet of meats, a banquet of wine dregs, meats filled with marrow, dregs that are filtered.”

[42:5]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “the God.” The definite article here indicates distinctiveness or uniqueness.

[42:5]  ¹¹ tn Heb “and its offspring” (so NASB); NIV “all that comes out of it.”

[42:5]  ¹² tn Heb “and spirit [i.e., “breath”] to the ones walking in it” (NAB, NASB, and NRSV all similar).

[42:10]  ¹³ tn Heb “his praise.” The phrase stands parallel to “new song” in the previous line.

[42:10]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “and its fullness”; NASB, NIV “and all that is in it.”

[42:10]  ¹⁵ tn Or “islands” (NASB, NIV); NLT “distant coastlands.”

[42:19]  ¹⁶ tc The precise meaning of מְשֻׁלָּם (mÿshullam) in this context is uncertain. In later biblical Hebrew the form (which appears to be a Pual participle from the root שָׁלַם, shalam) occurs as a proper name, Meshullam. The Pual of שָׁלַם (“be complete”) is attested with the meaning “repaid, requited,” but that makes little sense here. BDB 1023 s.v. שָׁלַם relates the form to the denominative verb שָׁלַם (“be at peace”) and paraphrases “one in a covenant of peace” (J. N. Oswalt suggests “the covenanted one”; Isaiah [NICOT], 2:128, n. 59) Some emend the form to מֹשְׁלָם (moshÿlam, “their ruler”) or to מְשֻׁלָּחִי (mÿshullakhi, “my sent [or “commissioned”] one”), which fits nicely in the parallelism (note “my messenger” in the previous line). The translation above assumes an emendation to כְּמוֹ שֹׁלְמִי (kÿmo sholÿmi, “like my ally”). Isaiah uses כְּמוֹ in 30:22 and perhaps 51:5; for שֹׁלְמי (“my ally”) see Ps 7:5 HT (7:4 ET).

[42:19]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “Who is blind but my servant, and deaf like my messenger I send? Who is blind like my commissioned one, blind like the servant of the Lord?” The point of the rhetorical questions is that no one is as blind/deaf as this servant. In this context the Lord’s “servant” is exiled Israel (cf. 41:8-9), which is spiritually blind and deaf and has failed to fulfill God’s purpose for it. This servant stands in contrast to the ideal “Israel” of the servant songs.

[59:19]  ¹⁹ tc Heb “fear.” A few medieval Hebrew mss read “see.”

[59:19]  ²⁰ tn Heb “and they fear from the west the name of the Lord.”

[59:19]  ²¹ tn Heb “and from the rising of the sun his splendor.”

[59:19]  ²² tn Heb “narrow”; NAB, NIV, NRSV “pent-up.”

[59:19]  ²³ tn Heb “the wind of the Lord drives it on.” The term רוּחַ (ruakh) could be translated “breath” here (see 30:28).

[60:5]  ²² tn Or “shine,” or “be radiant” (NAB, NASB, NIV, NRSV).

[60:5]  ²³ tn Heb “and it will tremble and be wide, your heart.”

[60:5]  ²⁴ tn Heb “the wealth of the sea,” i.e., wealth that is transported from distant lands via the sea.

[60:11]  ²⁵ tn Or “led in procession.” The participle is passive.

[61:11]  ²⁸ tn Or perhaps, “righteousness,” but the context seems to emphasize deliverance and restoration (see v. 10 and 62:1).

[61:11]  ²⁹ tn Heb “and praise before all the nations.”