Isaiah 2:22

2:22 Stop trusting in human beings,

whose life’s breath is in their nostrils.

For why should they be given special consideration?

Isaiah 4:6

4:6 By day it will be a shelter to provide shade from the heat,

as well as safety and protection from the heavy downpour. ¹ 

Isaiah 5:10

5:10 Indeed, a large vineyard ²  will produce just a few gallons, ³ 

and enough seed to yield several bushels ⁴  will produce less than a bushel.” ⁵ 

Isaiah 12:6

12:6 Cry out and shout for joy, O citizens of Zion,

for the Holy One of Israel ⁶  acts mightily ⁷  among you!”

Isaiah 14:23

14:23 “I will turn her into a place that is overrun with wild animals ⁸ 

and covered with pools of stagnant water.

I will get rid of her, just as one sweeps away dirt with a broom,” ⁹ 

says the Lord who commands armies.

Isaiah 14:27

14:27 Indeed, ¹⁰  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? ¹¹ 

Isaiah 21:5

21:5 Arrange the table,

lay out ¹²  the carpet,

eat and drink! ¹³ 

Get up, you officers,

smear oil on the shields! ¹⁴ 

Isaiah 25:5

25:5 like heat ¹⁵  in a dry land,

you humble the boasting foreigners. ¹⁶ 

Just as the shadow of a cloud causes the heat to subside, ¹⁷ 

so he causes the song of tyrants to cease. ¹⁸ 

Isaiah 41:16

41:16 You will winnow them and the wind will blow them away;

the wind will scatter them.

You will rejoice in the Lord;

you will boast in the Holy One of Israel.

Isaiah 42:4

42:4 He will not grow dim or be crushed ¹⁹ 

before establishing justice on the earth;

the coastlands ²⁰  will wait in anticipation for his decrees.” ²¹ 

Isaiah 42:9

42:9 Look, my earlier predictive oracles have come to pass; ²² 

now I announce new events.

Before they begin to occur,

I reveal them to you.” ²³ 

Isaiah 45:17

45:17 Israel will be delivered once and for all by the Lord; ²⁴ 

you will never again be ashamed or humiliated. ²⁵ 

[4:6]  ¹ tn Heb “a shelter it will be for shade by day from heat, and for a place of refuge and for a hiding place from cloudburst and rain.” Since both of the last nouns of this verse can mean rain, they can either refer to the rain storm and the rain as distinct items or together refer to a heavy downpour. Regardless, they do not represent unrelated phenomena.

[5:10]  ¹ tn Heb “a ten-yoke vineyard.” The Hebrew term צֶמֶד (tsemed, “yoke”) is here a unit of square measure. Apparently a ten-yoke vineyard covered the same amount of land it would take ten teams of oxen to plow in a certain period of time. The exact size is unknown.

[5:10]  ² tn Heb “one bath.” A bath was a liquid measure. Estimates of its modern equivalent range from approximately six to twelve gallons.

[5:10]  ³ tn Heb “a homer.” A homer was a dry measure, the exact size of which is debated. Cf. NCV “ten bushels”; CEV “five bushels.”

[5:10]  ⁴ tn Heb “an ephah.” An ephah was a dry measure; there were ten ephahs in a homer. So this verse envisions major crop failure, where only one-tenth of the anticipated harvest is realized.

[12:6]  ¹ sn See the note on the phrase “the Holy One of Israel” in 1:4.

[12:6]  ² tn Or “is great” (TEV). However, the context emphasizes his mighty acts of deliverance (cf. NCV), not some general or vague character quality.

[14:23]  ¹ tn Heb “I will make her into a possession of wild animals.” It is uncertain what type of animal קִפֹּד (qippod) refers to. Some suggest a rodent (cf. NASB, NRSV “hedgehog”), others an owl (cf, NAB, NIV, TEV).

[14:23]  ² tn Heb “I will sweep her away with the broom of destruction.”

[14:27]  ¹ tn Or “For” (KJV, NASB, NIV, NRSV).

[14:27]  ² tn Heb “His hand is outstretched and who will turn it back?”

[21:5]  ¹ tn The precise meaning of the verb in this line is debated. Some prefer to derive the form from the homonymic צָפֹה (tsafoh, “keep watch”) and translate “post a guard” (cf. KJV “watch in the watchtower”; ASV “set the watch”).

[21:5]  ² tn The verbal forms in the first three lines are infinitives absolute, which are functioning here as finite verbs. It is uncertain if the forms should have an imperatival or indicative/descriptive force here.

[21:5]  ³ sn Smearing the shields with oil would make them more flexible and effective in battle. See J. N. Oswalt, Isaiah (NICOT), 1:394.

[25:5]  ¹ tn Or “drought” (TEV).

[25:5]  ² tn Heb “the tumult of foreigners.”

[25:5]  ³ tn Heb “[like] heat in the shadow of a cloud.”

[25:5]  ⁴ tn The translation assumes that the verb יַעֲנֶה (ya’aneh) is a Hiphil imperfect from עָנָה (’anah, “be afflicted, humiliated”). In this context with “song” as object it means to “quiet” (see HALOT 853-54 s.v. II ענה). Some prefer to emend the form to the second person singular, so that it will agree with the second person verb earlier in the verse. BDB 776 s.v. III עָנָה Qal.1 understands the form as Qal, with “song” as subject, in which case one might translate “the song of tyrants will be silent.” An emendation of the form to a Niphal (יֵעָנֶה, ye’aneh) would yield the same translation.

[42:4]  ¹ tn For rhetorical effect the terms used to describe the “crushed (רָצַץ, ratsats) reed” and “dim (כָּהָה, kahah) wick” in v. 3 are repeated here.

[42:4]  ² tn Or “islands” (NIV); NLT “distant lands beyond the sea.”

[42:4]  ³ tn Or “his law” (KJV, ASV, NASB, NIV) or “his instruction” (NLT).

[42:9]  ¹ tn Heb “the former things, look, they have come.”

[42:9]  ² tn Heb “before they sprout up, I cause you to hear.” The pronoun “you” is plural, referring to the people of Israel. In this verse “the former things” are the Lord’s earlier predictive oracles which have come to pass, while “the new things” are predicted events that have not yet begun to take place. “The former things” are earlier events in Israel’s history which God announced beforehand, such as the Exodus (see 43:16-18). “The new things” are the predictions about the servant (42:1-7). and may also include Cyrus’ conquests (41:25-27).

[45:17]  ¹ tn Heb “Israel will be delivered by the Lord [with] a permanent deliverance.”

[45:17]  ² tn Heb “you will not be ashamed and you will not be humiliated for ages of future time.”